The
Department of Teacher Education and the Education Doctoral Program Office
DePaul
University College of Education
Present
Peter Gray, Ph. D.
The Purposes of Play: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology
Dr.
Gray’s recent research focuses on the role of play in human evolution and how
children educate themselves, through play and exploration, when they are free
to do so.
Tuesday, October 14
5:30 – 7:30 PM • Schmidt Academic Center Room 154
2320 N. Kenmore • Chicago
Free & Open to the Public
Peter Gray is a research
professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston College. He is author of
the internationally acclaimed textbook Psychology (Worth
Publishers, now in its 7th edition), which views all of psychology from an
evolutionary perspective, and 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). He has conducted and published
research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational
psychology. His current research and writing focuses primarily on children’s
natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. He writes a popular
blog for Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn.
