Connecticut teachers want you to know that “play-based learning” is not an oxymoron. For years child development and education experts have praised the benefits of play-based learning — a pedagogy ...

Pilot program coming to 7 schools in the fall: What to know ...

Play-based learning blends joy and intention, turning curiosity into powerful growth. By balancing child-led exploration with guided activities, educators nurture cognitive, social, and emotional ...

The state is among a handful to officially adopt such a definition, delineating both guided play and student-initiated play ...

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.

Play is one of the most important parts of early childhood education in Australia. We know children learn about the world through play and it helps them build creativity and independence. There is ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

As the world marks International Day of Play on June 11th, Ghana is reaffirming a simple but important message: play is not separate from learning- for young children, play is learning. The Government ...