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Preadolescent Children Reflect: The present-day play patterns of preadolescent children reflect the recreational emphases of our times. Children's play seems to be increasingly patterned after the interests of our mechanized, effort-reducing civilization. The spontaneous, adventurous, resourceful play of a generation ago is being replaced by the planned, expensive, supervised, spectatortype activities of many children today. This trend may be deflected by provision of more creative play facilities and freedom to use the natural play resources in the environment.
Children think logically, but to adults their responses may seem far from logical. Children are usually quite capable of providing a justification foi their beliefs as the following example shows. Six year old children were investigating which materials absorb or reflect sound. A book and a sponge were used. When asked .o predict which material will reflect sound better, several children suggested a sponge. Conventional experience would suggest that the sponge absorbs sound whilst the book reflects it. When asked for an explanation for their prediction, they said 'Because the sponge has got holes in it'.
The chapters in the final section of this book consider spiritual and religious education of young children; young children as citizens and the ways in which different societies' expectations of children impact on the children themselves and the kind of early education made available to them. It is in the final chapter, by Sacha Powell and I, that readers are urged to reflect on the implications of children's place in society and how educators contribute to the upbringing of the young learners who will manage that society in the twenty-first century.
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