In early June, the Conceptual PlayLab team and our STEM champs visited Suva, Fiji to take part in an exciting ECE symposium with University of South Pacific.
Below: subject positioning made visible - teachers in Fiji with PlayLab working in small groups to show the different pedagogical positions - to be equally present with children, to be above children, to be below children asking for help, to be in primordial we position (as one unit of teacher-child).
Sonya Nedovic @MonashEducation PlayLab wows the participants of the talanoa in Fiji as she presents a snapshot of her PhD research.
Below: Monique says that it not so much about the resources but about being resourceful. University of the South Pacific and @MonashEducation share their respective research together what a green-blue Pacific Conceptual PlayWorld could look like in Suva Fiji. We don’t buy but recycle.
Celebrate NAIDOC week with us, 2nd-9th of July
Visit the official NAIDOC week website to find out more about celebrations in your area.
Latest papers
Our latest papers are available online:
- Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings
- A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context
- Collective Imaginary Situation as a Site of Diagnostic Assessment: A Cultural-Historical Analysis of Children’s Emerging Science Motive Orientations in a Conceptual PlayWorld
- Collective play: the new conditions for children’s development in an institutional care setting
You can also access our latest working papers from the Conceptual PlayLab publications page.
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