Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan by Principe, Gabrielle
Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan by Principe, Gabrielle

Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan

This book reviews the consequences of raising children in today's highly unnatural environments and suggests ways in...
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Author: Gabrielle Principe
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Language: English
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Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan by Principe, Gabrielle

Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan

$46.94
Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan by Principe, Gabrielle

Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan

$46.94
Author: Gabrielle Principe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This book reviews the consequences of raising children in today's highly unnatural environments and suggests ways in which parents can learn to naturalize childhood again, so that a child's environment gels with how the brain was designed to grow. In a clearly presented, accessible narrative, the author marshals scientific evidence from a wide array of fields to explain why there is a disconnect between the brain's evolutionary history and the technology-centered present. Research from both human and animal studies indicates that brain development is fostered by consistent opportunities for face-to-face communication and freewheeling pretend play.

The startling implication is that today's structured, controlled, and fabricated surroundings are exactly wrong for developing brains. Instead of emphasizing technology and organized activities, parents and teachers could better help children learn by encouraging exploration, experimentation, and exposure to the real world. Recess, now often dismissed as a waste of time, should be considered an essential part of children's cognitive and social development; lessons should be individualized as much as possible; and the current focus on homework and letter grades should be de-emphasized and eventually eliminated altogether.

Fascinating and controversial, this well-researched discussion by an expert on child development will make parents and school systems rethink how we are raising our children.

Author: Gabrielle Principe
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 09/20/2011
Pages: 325
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9781616144258


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 7

About the Author
Gabrielle Principe, PhD (Spring City, PA), is associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Ursinus College. She is the author (with A. F. Greenhoot, and S. J. Ceci) of the forthcoming Children's Memory: Psychology and the Law, in addition to numerous articles in scientific journals.
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