learning

  • Walsh, G. (2021) Signalling Playfulness: Disguising work as play in the early years classroom

    Play has been widely investigated from a practice-based perspective; playfulness as an effective pedagogical tool has received less attention. Over […]

  • Doherty, A. (2016) “It is through others that we become ourselves.” A study of Vygotskian play in Russian and Irish schools.

    50 years after publishing his seminal work on play and its role in child development, Vygotskian theory is still highly […]

  • Jones, S. (2017) Heaney and Education

    Seamus Heaney inhabited the world of teacher education, as a student, and later as a lecturer, in 1960s Belfast. That […]

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