Just Play by Miriam Beloglovsky

Just Play by Miriam Beloglovsky

Reclaim the joy of play for yourself with Miriam Beloglovsky, coauthor of the best-selling, award-winning Loose Parts series.

Play is crucial in adulthood because it fosters adaptiveness, creativity, role rehearsal, and mind-body integration. Just Play specifically targets adults' play and explains how the adults' shift toward creativity can influence children. If adults can reharness their playful capacities and reap all of play's benefits, they will be equipped to work with children, design effective curricula, understand children and increase empathy, create playful leadership opportunities, and make significant changes to their programs and organizations.

Just like children, when adults engage in play and creative endeavors, they can find that childlike center that cultivates happiness and joy. Play is affirming because it allows us to enter a natural, safe, and caring environment in which we freely explore our inner thinking and desires.

The book will guide educators, administrators, and faculty through a series of comprehensive steps that will shift their thinking surrounding adult play. It is designed to give administrators, associations, and community agencies a blueprint to redesign programs to increase creativity and innovation, and ultimately drive system change.

Miriam Beloglovsky is a professor of early childhood education at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. She is a keynote speaker and presents numerous workshops on child development, loose parts, play, and early learning. She has also led community building and leadership training for nonprofit organizations and community agencies. She is co-author of the award-winning Loose Parts series.

Michelle Grant-Groves is the executive director of the I3 Institute: Inquiry, Intention and Innovation, a design and education consulting firm dedicated to bridging early care and education systems, Birth-3rd Grade, and beyond. She is also the executive director for the Center of Gravity, a STEM-based early childhood education lab school for the Institute. Michelle's life work is anchored in advancing racial equity and inclusion and sees inquiry as a core lever for community transformation. She has 20+ years of experience in the field of education, having served as a teacher, school-site and district administrator, worthy-wage advocate, author, designer, college instructor, facilitator, and presenter.

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ISBN 13	9781605547770
ISBN 10	1605547778
Title	Just Play
Author	Miriam Beloglovsky
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Redleaf Press
Year published	2023-08-22
Number of pages	200
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.