{"id":1250,"date":"2011-02-21T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2011-02-21T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:15:06","slug":"the-case-for-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/02\/21\/the-case-for-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Case-for-Play\/126382\/\">The Case for Play &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK kids, you can stop your creative paper folding exercise now and the monitor will collect your products for evaluation. And now, let&#8217;s take a break from all that with a quick game of Drill&#8217;nKill!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many traditional children&#8217;s games have a high level of rote learning and\/or rule-based behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Most scientists consider their nominal work to be a form of play.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all in the attitude (which is hard to define and quantify), and I suspect that a lot of educational &#8220;research&#8221; is confounded by subtle infections of attitude which dominate whatever effect is purportedly being observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Case for Play &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education. &#8220;OK kids, you can stop your creative paper folding exercise now and the monitor will collect your products for evaluation. And now, let&#8217;s take a break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/02\/21\/the-case-for-play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}