tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post7469468879916661362..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Predicting future environments: it's impossible in principleAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-50045221128203935872014-09-30T17:19:50.246-04:002014-09-30T17:19:50.246-04:00Rowing across the Atlantic in a very small boat? ...Rowing across the Atlantic in a very small boat? Indeed! Even more difficult if they only discussed their work late at night! <br /><br />I will send the link to my father. I think you're right that he will love the rhymes. Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-22061461604964076262014-09-30T17:09:15.024-04:002014-09-30T17:09:15.024-04:00I don't think this was their intention/motivat...I don't think this was their intention/motivation (to record traditions before they died out). Their career aim and interests/scholarship--folklorists of children's rhymes, games, etc. is what drove them.<br /><br />This Wiki link tells you more than you want to know but I love their comments on how they worked together, not too many paragraphs in.<br /><br />Your father would love, I think, some of the rhymnes and I'd guess that some kids would, too but probably not all.<br /><br />There have been two position papers by early childhood groups released recently which emphasize the importance of play, something I fear is disappearing as we push educational expectations and readiness progams and assessment ever downward.<br /><br />Childhood is a time of its own, well some of it should be.Edward Hesslernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-48806721924662633012014-09-30T16:46:03.118-04:002014-09-30T16:46:03.118-04:00Thank you, Ed. Yes, exactly, about predictions.
...Thank you, Ed. Yes, exactly, about predictions. <br /><br />And thanks for the link to the Opie's work. Was their purpose to catalogue traditions before they died out, as Derek Cooper's was, I wonder? In any case, an equally valuable time-capsule. Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.com