Interaction Imagination

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...

There are times we meet a child that cries and cries when they start their life as a member of an early year's group. No matter how much...

Discombobulated means being confused or being uncomfortable or not feeling together. I think it is a state many of us experience from...

I keep thinking about how much STUFF educators are buying to teach the children through play instead of permitting the play to teach them...

This post was written by Roberta Pucci as a part of the #GrammarofDrawing project together with Nona Orbach and myself. A Swedish...

On Sunday 17th April I was featured in Kathimerini national newspaper in Greece, interviewed by Lina Giannarou who then wrote an article...

(In Swedish after the image) On Friday I spoke at a conference about creating early years environments for success, I was one of four...

The Unique Child - first written in 2017 I love social media, I love the fact that we can share ideas online no matter where we are in...

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...

By Nona Orbach översatt till svenska av Suzanne Axelsson (finns under den engelska texten) My grandchildren like to come to the studio...

Why do teachers hate mess? Messy art can be about lots of tiny paper bits, or clay, or any materials that require work to clean up...

Original Learning is a reflective approach to view the roles of play, learning, teaching and understanding, and how adults can become...

The Joys of messy Art. Grammar of Drawing: Written by Suzanne Axelsson, translated by Nona Orbach 🇳🇮 and Roberta Pucci 🇮🇹. Finns på...

A toddler is a descriptive name of a period in our lives when we are very young.. to toddle basically means - to move with short and...

I once read a social media thread about the use of tablecloths in early years settings... one educator having seen them being used on...

As many of you might already know, during the last 18 months I have been listening to the forest to see what I can learn. It has been...

For me, being respectful of other people, their feelings, their needs etc is essential. It is a core element of Original Learning. Being...

How does it look where you eat? If you work at a setting do you eat lunch in the classroom/department rooms or in a dining room? What are...

Taking the time to reflect... it should be one of the simplest things to do, and yet often it feels impossible... as where do we get that...