Interaction Imagination

This extends my thinking about loose parts play to how loose parts can be incorporated into our teaching as well. Teaching and Play are...

The reason why I specify young children for this principles for Loose Parts Play is that I think it differs from how older children will...

As a little reminder, I use “The story of…” as blog post titles because I think it is important to consider that my opinion is just one...

I feel there is a need for the education system to become more aware of how play is a part of learning - I think play is more obvious in...

Usually we read about life-long learning - and I am all for that - but I think what happens is school-long teaching which risks people...

This is coming from an idea that play does not need a fixed physical space... neither does learning. The word nomad means a member of a...

First of all maybe I should start with what mean with the essence of play. It's an attempt to describe play as something more than just...

This quote is very similar to one made by Maya Angelou - often misquoted as "When we know better we do better". As I was writing my book...

After attending the Nobel Week Dialogues today in Stockholm - listening to various Nobel laureates talk about "The Future of Life" - I...

The last few weeks have been busy - I was in Glasgow to participate and listen to speakers at the EECERA conference (European Early...

Yesterday I started to write about my week of exploring playgrounds in the Stockholm area with a focus on the 8 categories of risky play....

I am researching, writing and observing about all things risky play at the moment and it is really making me aware of just how controlled...

The more I learn about play the more I feel that the whole truth about play is not being shared. Recently, I have been enjoying looking...

Over the weekend I held two presentations for educators in Turkey (the marvels of digital connections) and as I talked something struck...

Continuing my sharing of my play observations where I chose not to just observe children in preschools and play-spaces but to also...

I am always noticing... especially play. And as I come to the close of my playwork training I have decided to share some of the...

Written by Suzanne Axelsson 🇬🇧 Found here Swedish translation Suzanne Axelsson 🇸🇪 Finns tillgänglig här Hebrew translation Nona...

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

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

I have started training as a playworker Each Friday I meet with a group of others also wanting to train as a playworker and we actively...