Interaction Imagination

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...

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...

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

This post is a part of the #GrammarOfDrawing project together with Nona Orbach and Roberta Pucci. In this blogpost you will find the...

Pockets... I love them... as do my two daughters... but seldom do we get decent pockets in our clothes, compared with the pockets of my...

The surprise when we paused and looked at our shadows… Child: woah! You are taller than me…!!! I am not sure who was the most surprised...

Scribbling by Suzanne Axelsson "Everyone should have the permission to be able to scribble. There is a freedom in scribbling that allows...

Holidays are not something I teach or teach about… they are, instead, an opportunity to discover our multiplicity - after all, each...

Here are some ideas for math activities I have created to mix learning into children's play. These ARE an activities and technically not...

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...