Empowering Play in Primary Education [Paperback]

This book?contributes innovative ideas about how teachers, teaching assistants and children may incorporate play within the classroom while also advocating for its use as a powerful tool for ensuring successful learning outcomes.

The state of play: (primary education) introduction;  1. Playful Enquiry: between academic research and practitioner wisdom;  2. Play instead of learning, or play as learning? Reconceptualising play for a new generation of children;  3. Practices of Play in Education: Play at home, school readiness, and a positive transition to school;  4. Inclusive Practice and Play in Primary Education;  5. Designing Opportunities for Play in Primary Education: A no-trade off approach to play and learning;  6. Risky play in primary schools;  7. BRAC Play Labs: Designing a High-Quality, Low-Cost Model for Eary Years;  8. Developing playful mathematical thinking in Ghanaian early primary classrooms through the use of the game Achi;  9. Becoming a Playful School;  10. Playful School Leadership: Being serious about leadership playfully;  11. Fostering Playful Learning in School through a Pedagogy of Play;  Play is for children not for school

The education system does not always promote or give primacy to play within the curriculum, yet research and policy alike acknowledge the importance of play for children and young people. Empowering Play in Primary Education addresses this issue, contributing innovative ideas about how teachers, teaching assistants and children may incorporate play within the classroom while also advocating for its use as a powerful tool for ensuring successful learning outcomes.

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