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Children's Games from Around the World, 2/E
ISBN-10: 0205296270
ISBN-13: 9780205296279
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Copyright: 2000
Format: Paper; 212 pp
Published: 01/06/2000
Status: Instock
This book stresses three contemporary topics which are important to any person working with young children: multiculturalism, creativity, and cooperative learning. Glenn Kirchner, one of today's leading experts in elementary physical education, has collected games from all over the world and compiled them in a beautifully illustrated book that will serve as a resource for teacher educators and in-service teachers alike.
This edition is the result of a thirteen year collaborative project conducted with hundreds of teachers in fifty participating countries. The first part of the book features traditional games played by children on six continents. Although many of these games are unique to a given culture, some are modified versions of the same game — demonstrating the universality of children's games while introducing students and teachers to cultural variations.
The second and third parts of the book depart from the traditional games and focus on new games invented by children from the fifty participating countries. Almost half of these are cooperative games. Two chapters explaining how to guide children to invent their own games will enable teachers to use Kirchner's methods with their own students.
- More than 100 photographs and 150 drawings, most of them by children, show teachers and students how to play the games, while enlivening the text.
- More than 100 traditional games from six continents, over 160 games invented by children, and instructions for helping children create their own games provide any teacher with an inexhaustible supply of activities.
- No other book has game variations by country. No other book contains games invented by children. No other book has actual pictures of children playing their games. No other book contains children's drawings of the games they play. This book is completely unique.
- Nearly 100 new games and more than 60 new photographs demonstrate a variety of games enjoyed by children today.
- New activities from 17 previously unrepresented countries, including Cuba, Iran, Singapore, and Zimbabwe, greatly expand the multicultural theme. This edition covers more of the world than ever before.
- The new 8 1/2 x 11 inch trim size allows for more accurate display of activities and portrayal of examples.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
I.POPULAR TRADITIONAL GAMES FROM SIX CONTINENTS.
II.NEW GAMES INVENTED BY CHILDREN.
III.NEW COOPERATIVE GAMES CREATED BY CHILDREN.
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