Interaction Imagination

One of the topics that arose during our open house Grammar of Drawing meeting was the idea of do we show children how things work or do...

I am so excited. Not only has my book on Original Learning been released, I have also teamed up with Sally Haughey and her Wunderled team...

I thought I would start off the year with a simple message to slow down. My usual New Year wish to everyone is to make glorious mistakes...

In my book The Original Learning Approach; Weaving playing, learning and teaching together in early childhood I write not only about the...

For over a decade I have been focusing on listening as a form of democracy - not me listening to the children, but how we all can listen...

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

A post written by Suzanne Axelsson. All images provided by Paola Lopez and Kinderoo Childhood Academy in Ocala, Florida. It's that time...

When my youngest got his autism/ADHD diagnosis it made me rethink everything I thought I knew - not so much about my son, I met him every...

in October 2012 I ventured into blogging. It started as a space to explore pedagogy, play and childhood, it was never really intended for...

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

As part of writing my book on Original Learning and currently as I write about risk (for a Swedish book Lek, Risk och Undervisning -...

Grammar of Drawing: written by Suzanne Axelsson. A project by Suzanne Axelsson, Nona Orbach and Roberta Pucci exploring art, freedom,...

Now this is not about what you might think... it's not at about how to get preschoolers to share, or the dialogue about if they should be...

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....

During the last week I have been going round a variety of play-spaces in Stockholm together with my 18 year old son to evaluate them,...

As part of an outdoor play and learning workshop we created bottles of nature. Since I had a focus on bringing magic, imagination and...

A #GrammarOfDrawing project together with Roberta Pucci and Nona Orbach. This post is written by Roberta - it can be found in Swedish and...

On my social media I recently shared this image... with these words... "As I write about risk, play and teaching I keep thinking of ways...

By Nona Orbach for #GrammarOfDrawing - translated into Swedish by Suzanne Axelsson and into Italian by Roberta Pucci. A phenomenological...

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...