Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

We Saved the Best for You: Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators

DOI

10.1007/978-94-6209-122-1_12

ISBN

978-94-6209-122-1

Abstract

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play. In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior; in play it is as though he were a head taller than himself (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 102).

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