For Your Binder
Panoptic Playground: How Disneyland Functions as the Ultimate Disciplinary Environment
A while back - while falling down another rabbit hole in my effort to learn what "panopticon" meant (I heard it at a #playwork conference and didn't know what it meant) - I stumbled across quite a bit as to how theme parks, specifically the Disney ones, fall into the same category. #playground #play #panopticon
First Days of Preschool
The first days of preschool can be stressful for everyone. In this short but helpful article, Lillian Katz offers a few ideas that might assist both parents and teachers. #environment #learning #teaching #relationships #care
The Play-Friendly School Label: A handbook for schools
This document came on my radar while I was taking the Pop Up Adventure Play Playworker Development Course
I quickly realized that it serves as a functional "how-to" manual for anyone who not only says they want to be play based, but is really ready to put their money where their mouth is and make it happen. The document is from 2019 so I am not sure if the workshops and consulting piece they mention is still available, but it's a worthy read all the same. I read it three times and am still gleaning insight. #play #teaching #learning #environment
Are Schools Panoptic?
Exploring panopticon as a program of power as opposed to an architectural system. #learning #environment #panopticon
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Behaviors: Understanding the critical difference
When it feels like common sense and everyone should just "know it" (but they don't) it can be affirming to read about why it feels that way. Bottom-up behaviors are instinctual and unintentional. Top-down ones are deliberate and intentional. There is a difference. And how we approach them needs to be differentiated as well! #teaching #learning #relationships #specialed #expulsion #environment
After 100 years of the Same Teaching Model It's Time to Throw Out the Playbook
It's time to change the direction of the arrow! #teaching #relationships #environment
Four new tools for building your child-guidance skills
A little shameless plug here! In the summer of 2020 the Texas Child Care Quarterly published four book reviews and I was honored to see that my book, Lisa Murphy on... Being Child Centered was one of the ones they included! This link will take you to all four - mine is the last one. #teaching #learning #environment #press #play
The Natural Environment for Children’s Self-Education: The Sudbury Valley School is in these ways like a hunter-gatherer band
Play and exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time - time to do whatever one wants to do, without pressure, judgment, or intrusion from authority figures. #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
Disrupting assumptions of risky play in the context of structural marginalization: A community engagement project in a Canadian inner-city neighbourhood
This link will bring you to a very generous "snippets of the paper" page, it includes more than just the abstract though and some of you might have institutional access to the full study. There has been little exploration into risky play in the context of urban neighborhoods so this study does just that. Not surprisingly, the study finds that there are enormous inequities in the distribution of wealth within cities which directly and indirectly impact outdoor play and hoe play spaces are maintained. #play #outside #risk #environment #equity
Seeing Children do More with Less
Toes not toys! #play #DAP #looseparts #teaching #learning #environment
Conference notes from Chris Martin, PhD
These are the notes Lisa took from a lecture sponsored by IPA WORLD. Chris Martin shared highlights from his dissertation topic: Everyday assemblages, affect and agency: children's intra-actions with smart phones in outdoor play. #playwork #conferencenotes #play #tech #technology #environment #outside
Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom
Are the walls influencing learning? #environment #teaching #learning #art #creativity
