Children&Apos S Games In Street And Playground: Volume 2: Hunting Racing Duelling Exerting Daring Guessing Acting Pretending Peter Opie Floris Books

Perhaps This Book Should Come With A Warning To Parents: Within These Pages Children Deliberately Scare Each Other Ritually Hurt Take Foolish Risks Promote Fights And Play Ten Against One Yet Throughout They Consistently Observe Their Own Sense Of Fair \ During The Past Fifty Years Shelf-Loads Books Have Been Written Instructing In Games Ought -- Some Even Adults On How Instruct But Few Attempts Made Record Fact Was Iona Peter Opie\ S Pertinent Observation 1969 It Gap That Sought Fill Exhaustive Survey Through 1960S Play\ Aged Roughly Between Six Twelve Age When Outdoors Usually Out Sight Opies Weren\ T Interested Formal Sports Supervised By Parents Or Teachers What Excited Them Were Rough-And-Tumble For Which As Child Described Nothing Is Needed Players Themselves Also Anxious Meticulous Recording Spirit Zest Variety Disorderliness Not Be Lost Result Classic Work Children\ Street Playground Aid Clear Lively Presentation Remarkable Study Original Single Has Divided Into Two Both Volumes Played Park Wasteland More Than 10 000 From Shetland Isles Channel Islands Although Majority Information Comes Living Big Cities Such London Liverpool Bristol Glasgow Second Volume Focuses Involving Seeking Hunting Racing Duelling Exerting Daring Guessing Acting Pretending 85 Are Detail Including Rhymes Saying Repeat While Playing Together Different Names Under Brief Historical Notes Included Where Relevant Noted Often Thought Incapable Self-Organization Become Addicted Spectator Amusements Extent Must Relied Provide Materials Ideas Time Same Attitudes Still Widespread Today Our Concerns About Television Computer Middle-Class Parental Impulse Days Organised Classes Dates However Much May Need Looking After People Going Business Society There Important Lessons Learned Giving Physical Space Σελίδες: 224 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm