play
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McClelland, D. and Purdy, N. (2023) Back to the future: Contemporary lessons from a century of learning at Arellian, Ireland’s oldest nursery.
This article emerges from a SCoTENS-funded research project, Contested Childhoods Across Borders and Boundaries (2019-2021), jointly conducted by Maynooth University […]
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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 […]
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Walsh (2021) Play in Practice during the Pandemic: Summary Report
PlayBoard NI, Stranmillis University College and the Controlled Schools’ Support Council recently embarked on a collaborative research project to examine […]
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Walsh, G. (2021) Play in Practice during the Pandemic: Full Report
PlayBoard NI, Stranmillis University College and the Controlled Schools’ Support Council recently embarked on a collaborative research project to examine […]
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Walsh, G. (2017) Why Playful Teaching and Learning?
This chapter will take you on an evidence-based journey to show you why play in practice needs to be reconceptualised. […]
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Walsh, G. (2019) Towards Playful Teaching and Learning in Practice
Although play receives recognition across the globe in the pre-school context, its position within primary schooling is much more precarious […]

Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.
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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian
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