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A Moral Case For Play is expansive and penetrating in revealing play's links to expressive morality and student agency and identity. Children can flourish and deal with hardship when teachers use different play strategies to capture their imaginations. Our schools must be play-responsive as much as academic and intellectual and multicultural and inclusive. The author is a pioneer leading us with earnest strokes and joyful voice to consider play's values and uses in moral and character development for which he is master and champion. -- James Ewald Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University In a time when God and play are marginalized in the school setting, Rabbi Levingston makes a compelling case for the reestablishment of both in A Moral Case for Play in K-12 Schools: The Urgency of Advancing Moral Ecologies of Play. -- Michael M. Patte, , Bloomsburg University

A Moral Case For Play is expansive and penetrating in revealing play’s links to “expressive morality” and student agency and identity. Children can flourish and deal with hardship when teachers use different play strategies to capture their imaginations. Our schools must be play-responsive as much as academic and intellectual and multicultural and inclusive. The author is a pioneer leading us with earnest strokes and joyful voice to consider play’s values and uses in moral and character development for which he is master and champion. -- James Ewald Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University In a time when God and play are marginalized in the school setting, Rabbi Levingston makes a compelling case for the reestablishment of both in A Moral Case for Play in K-12 Schools: The Urgency of Advancing Moral Ecologies of Play. -- Michael M. Patte, , Bloomsburg University

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Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston is Director of Jewish Studies and Advisor to the Derech Eretz Honor Council at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.

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