Sara Smilansky

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Sara Smilansky

Psychology

#1363

World Rank

#1658

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Developmental Psychology

#68

World Rank

#75

Historical Rank

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Psychology

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According to Wikipedia, Sara Smilansky was a professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel and was a senior researcher for The Henrietta Szold Institute: The National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the Ruth Bressler Center for Research in Education. She has been a visiting professor for many well known universities such as the University of Maryland, College Park. She focused her research on play training and its effects on children. Her research included studying both Israeli and American, as well as advantaged and disadvantaged, children. She wrote multiple books on children's play and its relation to learning, the effect of divorce and death on children, and the development of twins. Her research on children's play included working with Jean Piaget.

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Sara Smilansky's Published Works

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The Effects Of Sociodramatic Play On Disadvantaged Preschool Children (1968) (744)
Facilitating Play: A Medium for Promoting Cognitive, Socio-Emotional and Academic Development in Young Children (1990) (203)
Children's play and learning : perspectives and policy implications (1990) (57)
A cross-cultural comparison of israeli and american children's death concepts (1989) (33)
On Death: Helping Children Understand and Cope (1988) (25)
The effect of certain learning conditions on the progress of disadvantaged children of kindergarten age (1966) (11)
Intellectual advancement of culturally disadvantaged children: An Israeli approach for research and action (1967) (10)
Clay in the Classroom: Helping Children Develop Cognitive and Affective Skills for Learning (1989) (10)
An Experiment in the Use of Drawing to Promote Cognitive Development in Disadvantaged Preschool Children in Israel and the United States. Final Report. (1973) (6)
BASES FOR INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. (1965) (5)
A demonstration program of pre-school activities to promote scholastic success for culturally disadvantaged schildren, progress report on (1964) (2)
The role and program of preschool education for socially disadvantaged children (1970) (1)
The Parent as Partner in the Educational Advancement of Preschool-Age Children (1982) (0)

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Tel Aviv University