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Peter Gray joins Heidi Steel this month, to talk about the role of play in our children’s natural learning journey.

We discuss:

· Learning through real play, natural human development, and the adult’s role in providing a rich environment.

· Peter shares with us his own interest and personal journey into Self Directed Education 2:46

· The outcomes of young people who are self directed in their education, including unschoolers 9:10

· Defining true play 16:27

· What play looks like beyond the age of five and how it changes and develops as our children get older 29:44

· How will our children learn all the things that they need to learn 34:00

· The adult’s role in facilitating our children’s education, opportunities and conditions that allow the child to play in the way that they need and want to 44:43

· Courage, knowledge, confidence and faith in unschooling 48:20

· The benefits of self directed education 51:08

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Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston College. My book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, is available in 18 languages. My four new collections of essays can be purchased now at Tipping Points Press. See also my Psychology Today blog and follow me on Facebook

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