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Empowering children as active and responsible citizens: A dramatic journey towards global citizenship

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates three key moments from a sequence of learning facilitated within a Singapore preschool. Delivered as part of a wider study aimed at identifying the value of dramatic pedagogies for developing young children's global competence, the learning sequence was facilitated by the researcher—an experienced early childhood ...
Elaine Ng
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering Playfulness in 2-to-6-Year-Old Children: A Longitudinal Study of Parental Play Support Profiles and Their Effects on Children's Playfulness. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Duss I, Rüdisüli C, Wustmann Seiler C, Lannen P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘I like to dance with the flowers!’: Exploring the possibilities for biodiverse futures in an urban forest school

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
wiley   +1 more source

Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris, Joanna Haynes, Joanne Peers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The neurobiology of play: a narrative review of evidence from mice and humans for advancing neurorehabilitation. [PDF]

Front Neurosci
Canepa ME, Ramenghi LA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti, Saila Poulter, Niklas A. Chimirri, Lasse Lipponen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Associations Between Parental Playfulness, Parenting Styles, the Coparenting Relationship and Child Playfulness. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Seal H, Bureau JF, Deneault AA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Classroom Reading as a Battle of the Sensory. Bodily Dimensions of Unshared Reading in Primary Education

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary classrooms are dynamic spaces where young students learn to read and develop as readers. While reading inherently fosters an individual interaction with a text, its manifestation in a classroom transforms reading into a collective activity.
Anna Martín‐Bylund, Linnéa Stenliden, Mattias Arvola, Eva Reimers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving surprise and play in unexpected places: clowns as artistic resources in oncology and palliative care. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Carnero-Sierra S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Politics of Othering in the 'Happy Soul': Historicising Abjection in the Promise of Joy for Childhood and Play

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
wiley   +1 more source