Articles About Play

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#125 Turning Problems into Play
A Playful Path (2013)
Children at Play: An American History (2007)
Cooperation over Coercion: The Importance of Unsupervised Childhood Play for Democracy and Liberalism (2015 pdf)
Eliminating Play Is Harmful
Free Play
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant and Better Students for Life (2013)
Gadamer on Play and the Play of Art (2021 pdf)
Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Play
Homo Ludens (1938)
How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy
Humans Need Play
Is Too Little Play Hurting Our Kids?
Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
John Cleese: This is the key to creativity (play)
Man Play and Games (1961)
Play Increases Creativity
Play Is Healthy
Play is how we shape the world with our minds
Play IS Learning
Reintroducing Play
The Boy on the Beach: Building Community through Play (2010)
The decline of play (2014)
The Fragile Generation: Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.
The Play Deficit
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living
The Play of Animals (1898)
The Play Of Man (1901)
The secret to staying young – and young at heart? Play
Think Quarterly Play Issue (2012)
Why Play Is Practice in Disguise | Unfolded Chapter 2 with Dr. Linda & Brian Schubring
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World (2016)
Work Should Be Play