Interaction Imagination

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

Play and listening... it keeps coming back to these two things for me. If I was to boil it down to two important words it would be Play...

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

The Emergent Curriculum is about being responsive to the children. That the curriculum, the teaching emerges from the child's needs and...

Language and communication is essential to reflect on... how it shapes, includes, excludes and forms bias.. Moving to Sweden from the UK...

I am sorting through my computer and getting rid of old things, and rediscovering notes, and essays and all sorts as I do this... And I...

Today is the first day of the last month of 2020. A very different year than we all were expecting, that has required some creative...

This is a massive story to tell, and I know I will not have time to tell it all now... but just some parts of it... In this part I strive...

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

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...

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...