A History of Children's Play: The New Zealand Playground, 184-195

by Brian Sutton-Smith and Brian Sutton Smith

New Zealand children from 1840 to 1890 were subjected to an unusual combination of agrarian existence and an industrial social philosophy in the newly formed schools. When schools became more universal in the expanding industrial society, a new emphasis on the control of children developed, and from 1920 onward, adult supervision in the form of heavily organized sports and playgrounds encroached more and more on the untrammeled freedom of the rural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278089
• ISBN13: 9780812278088
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"