Interaction Imagination

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

Responding to the children not following the children is key in Original Learning - plans are made, activities designed to provoke...

I still have memories of being interested in dinosaurs as a young child. I have certain memories of books and conversations I had about...

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...

What is the essential childhood experience of play? This question was asked of me over on Instagram. And to try and get a wider...

I first wrote a blog sharing my thinking about Original Learning in October 2017... And I have just returned to that post to reflect on...

During the Play First Summit I talked about relationships as being key... the process of listening to understand rather than listening to...

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...

I have decided to write several chapters on this topic of storytelling in more manageable bitesize reads as I realised that this too was...

Dialogue is essential Equally listening. What I have found over the years is that working philosophically with children has enabled me...

In April 2018 I made a visit to Aspen preschool in Norsborg in Botkyrka, part of the greater Stockholm area. Botkyrka is also an area in...

For me, the atelier, or art studio, is so much more than just a place to make arty things... it is a place of discovery, recovery and...

Sagan om ... röst (på svenska efter bilderna) this post comes from a place of both sadness and strength. Ever since starting my blog I...

(på svenska efter foto-bilder) In the AnjiPlay kindergartens in China, the words Love, Risk, Joy, Engagement and Reflection are their...

(texten finns på svenska efter bilderna) For me love and joy are interwoven, and rather difficult to pull apart. When I write about...