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Peter Gray, Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Free to Learn (Basic Books) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 8th edition). He has conducted and published research in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and education. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focus primarily on children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. He a founding member of the nonprofit Alliance for Self-Directed Education and a founding board member of the nonprofit Let Grow. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.
Peter Otis Gray is an American psychology researcher and scholar. He is a research professor of psychology at Boston College, and the author of an introductory psychology textbook. He is known for his work on the interaction between education and play, and for his evolutionary perspective on psychology theory.
Peter Gray grew up in the 1950s in a series of small towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin.[1] He graduated in 1962 from Cabot School in Cabot, Vermont.[2] He then majored in psychology at Columbia College in New York City and graduated magna cum laude.[2] His experiences working at camps and recreation centers in high school and college helped to shape his future academic interests in play and child development.[citation needed] He received his PhD in biological sciences from Rockefeller University in 1972,[3] and, in that same year, joined the Psychology Department at Boston College.[2] There he moved up the ranks from Assistant to Associate to Full Professor, serving at various times as department chair, director of the undergraduate program, and director of the graduate program.[2][4] In 2002 he retired from his teaching position and accepted the appointment he now holds, as research professor.[2][1]
Gray is the author of a widely used introductory psychology textbook, now in its eighth edition (joined by coauthor David Bjorklund beginning with the 7th edition). The book broke new ground when the first edition was published (in 1991) as the first general introductory psychology textbook that brought a Darwinian perspective to the entire field.[citation needed] He is also author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, and he writes a popular blog for Psychology Today magazine entitled "Freedom to Learn".
In 2016, Gray helped to found the Alliance for Self-Directed Education,[5] an organization which promotes self-directed education for children and teenagers as replacement for traditional schooling.[6] He served as president of the organization, stepping down in 2020.[7] In 2017, Gray helped to found Let Grow, a non-profit organization which promotes childhood independence and pushes back against the model of helicopter parenting.[8]
Children's play (particularly age-mixed play); self-directed learning; evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, general psychology, role of play in human biological and cultural evolution.
Professor Gray joined the faculty in the Fall of 1972 and taught regularly until the Spring of 2002. He is author of Psychology, an introductory textbook now in its sixth edition, and, most recently, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. His past research had to do with basic mammalian motivational mechanisms, and his present research has to do with children's play and its educative value. Professor Gray is now retired from regular teaching, but continues to conduct and publish research and give guest lectures.
I resigned for several reasons. One had to do with teaching. I always liked working with students on individual or small-group projects. I also liked engaging students in discussions in small classes. And, I admit, I liked being on stage lecturing to very large classes. But I hated the fact that many students were there only because they believed they had to be, and I hated grading papers and exams and assigning grades to students at the end of each semester. As I became increasingly engaged in research into Self-Directed Education (democratic schooling and unschooling), I began, increasingly, to doubt the value of teaching under the constraints of the typical university. Teaching takes a lot of time and effort, and if you are not sure it is a good thing, it begins to feel burdensome.
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I loved your description of your life and the play and joy you are experiencing! I think we need more of these stories to remind us adults that it is possible to do this. It also inspires me to think about all the kids who are growing up in a self-directed learning environment in which their natural play leads them into careers that feel like play! Thank you so much for sharing your story! It is very much appreciated:-)
I lost my amazing, lovely dad a year ago (he was 94). He was a real 'people person' (although an introvert by nature) and I never remember going anywhere with him without us bumping into someone he knew. I remember, when he was about 91, going to a lock on the Upper Thames with him (my sister is a relief lock-keeper - her fifth career :)) which was quite busy as it was a place the public would often go. I was on one side of the lock and he was on a bench on the other. I sat and watched him talk to person after person after person - they would either sit down next to him or would stand near him. At the end of the day I said, 'Pa, you are remarkable - you are so interested in people.' He just smiled and shrugged and said, 'Well, dear, everyone you meet has a story to tell.'
I stopped teaching in schools (music specialist) in 2015. I finally ceased employment in December 2021, when I left a Saturday music conservatoire after 34 years. I had rather imagined I would do both until they carried me out feet first, but various circumstances (not happy ones) caused both to happen. Since then I have done exactly what I want to do - teaching adults online, devising and running a host of interesting courses - as well as a fair bit of lazing around! It's pretty wonderful.
It now breaks my heart that we have a world full of people who are imprisoned. Imprisoned in a life that really, truly doesn't make them happy, but which keeps them doing things they don't really want to do.
Back to my beloved dad (I know I'm biased, but he truly was a remarkable and wonderful person). He used to love reading obituaries in the papers. Once I asked him why - and I had a similar answer to the one I asked at the lockside. 'Because there are all these remarkable people, that one has never heard of, who lived remarkable lives.'
In Letter S2, where I summarized readers\u2019 responses to my survey question about what they would do if they had more time, I mentioned that I was tempted to say something about a change I made a bit more than two decades ago to turn essentially all of my remaining life into play. I have always had mixed feelings about bringing my own experiences into my writing. On the one hand, like many who have been on the planet longer than the average person, I like to think my experiences may be interesting, possibly even useful, to others. On the other hand, a voice inside me says, \u201CHey, Peter, that\u2019s pretty egocentric; talk about research not yourself!\u201D I also realize this is going to come across as boasting, and it probably is that.
In August of 2002, when I was 58 years old, I resigned from my position as full professor at Boston College, well before retirement age (which for professors is typically sometime after 70). I had been a professor in the Department of Psychology (now Psychology and Neuroscience) already for 30 years, researching, teaching, and administering (I was department chair for a while). When I resigned, I didn\u2019t separate from the university completely. I accepted the Dean\u2019s offer of an unpaid but official position as Research Professor. It involved no obligations on my part, but I could continue to use some of the university\u2019s research supports and, in return, I would continue to note my Boston College affiliation on academic publications.
Another reason I resigned is because, financially, I could. Early in my career, when I was regularly teaching the introductory psychology course, I couldn\u2019t find any textbooks I liked. They all seemed insulting to students\u2019 intelligence. They treated psychology as if it were a collection of facts, names, and definitions to memorize. They did not encourage critical thinking. To me, psychology is a set of interesting ideas to think about, challenge, delimit, expand upon, and in other ways discuss, but I found no books that presented the field that way. Also, I came to psychology with a background in biology, steeped in evolutionary thinking, so I wanted to bring Darwinian insights into the discussion of ideas in psychology. At the time, there were no introductions to psychology that did any of this. So, I decided to write my own. At first, I did this just for my own course, distributing copies of my typed drafts to my students, but then a major publishing company expressed interest in publishing it. The book turned out to be a success through multiple editions. My royalties for some years were more than my Boston College salary and I put most of that into retirement savings, so I no longer needed the salary.
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