For Your Binder
State of Play: How tot lots became places to build children’s brains
The city has come to realize that it must provide for its children, that they have a right to play as well as to work. NYC Mayor Seth Low, 1903.
So what happened? #play #playgrounds #outside #movement #adventureplaygrounds #playwork Of note, depending on how often you access articles in The New Yorker, you might need to sign up for this one.
Towards a re-conceptualisation [sic] of risk in early childhood education
Her actual paper is available on SAGE (if you have access) and there is a link within the body of this link you do! This immediate link will bring you to an article where she gives an overview of her findings. Additionally, she wonders how ECEs view risk taking? Is it limited to risky play? Or perhaps something more?? #risk #play #teaching
Sorry, There’s No Easy Toolkit for Social-Emotional Learning. But It’s Worth the Work
What are we waiting for? Sometimes I think we lost our faith in play. #DAP #learning #teaching
What Does it Mean to Care?
It's time to dismantle the hierarchy of importance between activities such as helping a child put on their coat and teaching them a new word. #care #relationships #teaching
Giant in the nursery - Jean Piaget
From the New York Times archives! A deep look at Jean Piaget! #learning #teaching #theorists #parenting
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
From the Panopticon to Disney World: the Development of Discipline
If consensual control is embedded in the design, maybe Disney order might be so Mickey Mouse after all! #panopticon
The Playwork Primer
A wonderful introduction to playwork as well as some key concepts and phrases. It also provides an overview of the play types as identified by Bob Hughes as well as tons of resources & notes at the end. It might only be 20 some-odd pages, but for a small little book, it packs a punch! #playwork #DAP #play #teaching #learning
Red Paint in the Hair
An oldie but a goodie about messy play and art! #art #play #DAP #creativity #teaching #learning #parenting
The Having of Wonderful Ideas
An excerpt from her book of essays of the same title, it'll whet your whistle and make you realize you need to get the book! #DAP #teaching #learning #theorists
Is play a privilege or a right? And what’s our responsibility? On the role of play for equity in early childhood education
Although the rest of the world has ratified Article 31 of the United Nations Rights of the Child which declares that play is the right of all children, the USA has yet to do so. This article rejects play as a privilege and instead supports it as a matter of equity. #play #equity #teaching
On Thinking & Teaching: A conversation with Eleanor Duckworth
We must have deep relationships with people and with ideas. #teaching #learning #theorists