Podcast Episodes featuring Peter Gray
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Should Parents Really Worry About Video Games? with Research Professor Peter Gray
Potential Psychology - June 19, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings'It's 'digital heroin': How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies' That was the NY Post headline that sent the internet into meltdown in 2016. The article went on to state that 'your kid's brain on Minecraft looks like a brain on drugs' and every parent who has ever experienced a pang of gui...
27: Play with Peter Gray
Sage Family - February 12, 2019 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 305 ratingsToday I’m here with Peter Gray talking about play.Peter is the research professor behind the Psychology Today blog Freedom to Learn and the book Free to Learn. We go over what we’ve gotten wrong, real play, mixed age play, scaffolding, equality, screens, independence, and lifestyle. Get...
TAMP Episode 4 with Peter Gray of Wilderness Wheels Morocco
The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast - August 03, 2018 20:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe welcome an unexpected guest to the Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast for episode 4; Peter Gray the founder, director and guide at Wilderness Wheels Morocco. I am a big fan of WW Morocco, and recommend everybody makes a trip to north Africa. The place and the riding is fantastic. Peter g...
544: Peter Gray (Part Three) - A Future of Self-Directed Education
School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation - February 16, 2018 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 331 ratingsPart Three of Three My marathon conversation with Peter Gray concludes with an exploration of Peter's vision for the future. It's a bold vision, but he describes the observations that led him to believe it will become a reality for more and more children and families in the coming years...
543: Peter Gray (Part Two) - School's Impact On Creativity and Critical Thinking
School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation - February 13, 2018 17:23 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 331 ratingsPart Two of Three Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College, and author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. Peter serves on the Organizing team for the Allian...
542: Peter Gray (Part One) - Foundations of Self-Directed Education
School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation - February 11, 2018 22:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 331 ratingsPart One of Three Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College, and author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. Peter serves on the Organizing team for the Allianc...
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILDREN BE HAPPIER, MORE SELF-RELIANT & BETTER STUDENTS FOR LIFE! Peter Gray | School | Self-Help | Inspire
Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler - September 02, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 840 ratingsIf you’ve ever wanted your children to be happier, healthier and more successful in all that they do, then do we have the playful show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College, the author of the college textbook Psychology, and the auth...
Ep. 415: Peter Gray Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following - January 15, 2016 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsMy guest today is Peter Gray, an American psychologist who currently occupies the position of research professor of psychology at Boston College. He is also a well known critic of standard learning systems, and calls himself an evolutionary developmental psychologist. He studies why children are...
108 - Peter Gray (Free-Range Childhood)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 19, 2015 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsPeter Gray is an American psychologist who currently occupies the position of research professor of psychology at Boston College. He is the author of a widely used introductory psychology textbook, Psychology, now in its sixth edition. The book broke new ground when the first edition was publish...
Peter Gray, “Free to Learn” (Basic Books, 2013)
New Books Network - March 05, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsIn his book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013), Peter Gray proposes the following big idea: we shouldn’t force children to learn, rather we should allow them to play and learn by t...