Interaction Imagination

Written by Suzanne Axelsson 🇬🇧 Found here Swedish translation Suzanne Axelsson 🇸🇪 Finns tillgänglig här Hebrew translation Nona...

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

Water is many things... for a start it comes in many forms... liquid, gas and solid... A flexibility to meet the needs of the...

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...

I have started training as a playworker Each Friday I meet with a group of others also wanting to train as a playworker and we actively...

Risk is one of the essential threads of Original Learning. During the last few weeks I have been immensely fortunate to listen and...

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

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...

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

Responding to the children not following the children is key in Original Learning - plans are made, activities designed to provoke...

I still have memories of being interested in dinosaurs as a young child. I have certain memories of books and conversations I had about...

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...

What is the essential childhood experience of play? This question was asked of me over on Instagram. And to try and get a wider...

I first wrote a blog sharing my thinking about Original Learning in October 2017... And I have just returned to that post to reflect on...

During the Play First Summit I talked about relationships as being key... the process of listening to understand rather than listening to...

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...