Interaction Imagination

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...

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...

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...

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 post is available in here in English, Swedish ( Suzanne) and Portuguese (Adriana Hollenbeck) Text by Suzanne Axelsson and Roberta...

Nona Orbach - author/Hebrew translation 🇬🇧🇮🇱 Suzanne Axelsson - English editor/Swedish translation 🇬🇧🇸🇪 Roberta Pucci - Italian...

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...

Recently I changed the name of the Facebook group I have been admin for over a decade... from Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach to...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...