Interaction Imagination

The surprise when we paused and looked at our shadows… Child: woah! You are taller than me…!!! I am not sure who was the most surprised...

Scribbling by Suzanne Axelsson "Everyone should have the permission to be able to scribble. There is a freedom in scribbling that allows...

Holidays are not something I teach or teach about… they are, instead, an opportunity to discover our multiplicity - after all, each...

Here are some ideas for math activities I have created to mix learning into children's play. These ARE an activities and technically not...

Just as I no longer refer to myself as Reggio Emilia inspired, but Malaguzzi inspired because of the many different ways that the...

Play and listening... it keeps coming back to these two things for me. If I was to boil it down to two important words it would be Play...

In my FB group The Original Learning Approach I shared the below quote and it stimulated some really interesting dialogues... not least...

The Emergent Curriculum is about being responsive to the children. That the curriculum, the teaching emerges from the child's needs and...

Language and communication is essential to reflect on... how it shapes, includes, excludes and forms bias.. Moving to Sweden from the UK...

I am sorting through my computer and getting rid of old things, and rediscovering notes, and essays and all sorts as I do this... And I...

Today is the first day of the last month of 2020. A very different year than we all were expecting, that has required some creative...

This is a massive story to tell, and I know I will not have time to tell it all now... but just some parts of it... In this part I strive...

Many years ago now I started a project called "Together on the Square". The aim was to "teach" empathy by exposing the children to...

Rough and tumble play. It really is an arena of great learning - but as the responsible adult it is also a period of 100% focus. The...

This week some of my words from my interview with Sally at the Play First conference were quoted, and I noticed that there was a lot of...

"Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person's life revolves, not only as an infant or a toddler or a...

I write, hold presentations and workshops about democratic learning a lot. And when I do I always start with how I define democratic,...

I often find articles and comments about how playgrounds and play-spaces limit children, often in connection with the promotion of...

Over the years I have used a lot of circles as ways to explain my thinking. And while I like circles I still find them a little too neat...

This is the last in the series connecting to the talk for Play First Summit 2020 arranged by Teacher Tom and Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust...