Marilyn and the PlayLab team are super excited about our partnership with the ABC’s Play School Story Time and ABC Kids Early Education. The team have been working with the ABC’s Early Childhood Education Producer, Laura Stone, behind the scenes to prepare some super innovative materials for educators and families.
Visit Play School Story Time to find out more!
Celebrating our successes
We congratulate Dr. Kulsum Chishti Yonzon and Dr. Xianyu Meng on their recent doctorate conferral.
Kulsum’s research study focuses on infants-toddlers learning and development, specifically how Conceptual PlayWorld creates conditions for developing the imagination and science concept formation in the toddler age period. Her areas of focus include children’s learning and development in infancy and toddler age period, translating theory into practice to develop effective play pedagogy, educational psychology, STEM education, and providing mentorship and guidance to early childhood educators and teachers. Kulsum is an Early Childhood Teacher and hails from Nepal. She has experience working in the early childhood sector in Nepal and Australia.
Xianyu's thesis was entitled "A cultural-historical study of the development of emotion regulation of children in institutional care in China: A playworld approach". Her research focused on applying the playworld pedagogy to an institutional care setting in the Chinese context, in an attempt to support the children's emotion regulation. Her research found that playworlds, when implemented as part of the institutional practice, created new developmental possibilities for children in institutional care in China. Before commencing her PhD journey, she worked as a Montessori early childhood teacher for five years, and as an educational consultant for a not-for-profit organisation specialising in the care of vulnerable children.
Latest papers
Our latest papers are available online.
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If you are an early childhood educator who would like to have an opportunity to participate in the Conceptual PlayLab research activities in the future, you can register your interest and join our private Facebook group - Conceptual PlayWorlds for Educators. You can also access free resources for educators.
If you are a parent who would like to have an opportunity to participate in the Conceptual PlayLab research activities in the future, you can register your interest. You can also access free resources for families.
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