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So this is new to me! For a class on action research with Dr. Cynthia Nicol, I’ve been asked to think about how I might
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Megan has collaborated with play and learning experts and research groups to discuss the benefits of play, risky play and how to bring it all together in your outdoor classroom.
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Play Research Group: Children As Catalysts for Social Capital
During our final August PLAY Journal group meeting, we reviewed the article “Through the Kids . . . We Connected With Our Community”: Children as
Play Research Group: Risky Play In Schools
For our July 25 play research study group meeting, I presented slides from a presentation given at a recent Canadian Association of School System Administrators
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Play Research Group: beginnings
Our first play research group meeting on intersecting and overlapping topics relevant to child well-being was full of informal discussion and brainstorming about the scope of
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The Benefits of Play
If you’ve ever wondered what the secret sauce is for parenting high performing and likeable kids, you might want to learn more about the science of
This is your child’s brain on play!
If you’ve ever wondered how play helps your child’s brain development, then watch this! In all the noise of social media, once in a while
Why Reading to Babies Matters
Everyone seems to agree on the abundance of research supporting the data that reading to babies leads to school success. For a long time, we have
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Strata Noise: Defending the Right to Play Outdoors
In my neighbourhood, kids knock on doors to ask if so and so can come out to play in an ongoing giant game of capture
Making Play a Priority
“Play is the work of the child,” wrote Maria Montessori more than 100 years ago. Most everything that a child needs for healthy development –
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Dr. Stuart Brown: Why Play is More than Just Fun
If you’ve never heard of Dr. Stuart Brown then you are in for a treat when you read his book, Play. In this book, Brown explains
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