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 ...

It’s been eight years since New Hampshire lawmakers, sounding the alarm on the “academization” of kindergarten, amended ...

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 ...

Kimberly Nesbitt has studied extensively how young children’s cognitive development can be accelerated in learning ...

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

If your child is starting Ontario kindergarten in September, you have likely come across the headlines over the past year and a half about the “new kindergarten curriculum.” The province first ...

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 ...