Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development

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The teacher's role in supporting young children's level of play engagement (2014, background): “Play has long been recognised as the royal road to learning and development in early childhood (Bjorklund, 2007; Hännikäinen, Singer, & Van Oers, 2013; Sutton-Smith, 1997).”
An Evolutionarily Informed Education Science (2008, background): “Taking Advantage of Evolved Motivational Biases Bjorklund (2007b) and Berch (2007) argued that under some conditions children’s social play and discourse as well as other natural modes of learning can be used to facilitate the acquisition of academic skills.”
Positive Development in a Disorderly World (2011, background): “But, on the other hand, research shows that learning is most likely to stick and be used later when it involves personal experiences (Bjorklund, 2007).”
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (2013, background): “That is, children are adapted to meet the needs and demands of childhood and are not simply incomplete or under-developed adults (Bjorklund, 2007; Konner, 2010).”
Play and playfulness, basic features of early childhood education (2013, background): “Bjorklund (2007) hypothesises: When behavioural flexibility is important to an animal it is likely that some mechanisms would evolve that promote learning the vagaries of a changeable environment.”