playfulness

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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.

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

Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian

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Purdy, N., Walsh, G., Orr, K., Rowan, A., Symington, E., and Winter, F. (2024) Transfer Talks

Purdy, N., Walsh, G., Orr, K., Rowan, A., Symington, E., and Winter, F. (2024) Transfer Talks

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