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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, 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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