Play

  • Walsh, G. (2017) Pillars for Practice for Playful Teaching and Learning

     

  • Walsh, G. (2019) ‘It’s teaching … but not as we know it’: using participatory learning theories to resolve the dilemma of teaching in play-based practice

    Against a backdrop of ‘play’ as the established notion of best practice in early childhood education, this paper sets out […]

  • Walsh, G. (2019) ‘What’s all the fuss about play’? Expanding student teachers’ beliefs and understandings of play as pedagogy in practice

    In an attempt to resolve some of the lingering tensions involved in understanding play as learning in practice, a group […]

  • Walsh, G. (2019) More than ‘just play’: picking out three dimensions of a balanced early years pedagogy

    This paper addresses the incompletely resolved tension between play-based and direct teaching approaches to early years pedagogy and practitioners’ resultant […]

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