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Mature dramatic play and Tools of the Mind

The type of play is called mature dramatic play, or MDP. To get the benefits in those bullet points, MDP has to be engaged in many hours a day. This has been codified into a school program called Tools of the Mind, one of the few programs of its type that has been studied in randomized trials. The ideas for Tools of the Mind come from Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, a handsome polymath who burned out quickly in the early years of the Soviet era.

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