Child's Play Dorothy Howard And the Folklore of Australian Children

Dorothy Howard states that ... while we are studying children on the playground, they are studying us in the classroom, at home and in public gatherings, and expressing their findings... in subtle but direct satire. I suggest we can learn about ourselves by listening to them. An American academic who pioneered as an advocate for the play of children in the 1950s, this book shows Howard's original thinking. Her work resulted from a visit to Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her mission was to observe and document the play and folklore of children. Since that time, studies of child's play have received wide attention, and 50 years later we can see how forward her thinking was. The book includes contributions by international scholars in the fields of history and folklore. Howard's insights into the world of the child are equally relevant today. Her meticulously documented accounts of hopscotch, marbles, knucklebones, and string games reveal the schoolyard as it was then, providing rich social history. Essays by Factor and Smith pay tribute to Howard.Howard, Dorothy is the author of 'Child's Play Dorothy Howard And the Folklore of Australian Children', published 2006 under ISBN 9780957747173 and ISBN 0957747179.