Evolutionarily speaking, we are built to enjoy learning. Neuroscientists (and those of us who spend time with young children) know this to be true—but institutionalized education tends to dim the joy ...
A group of researchers at Southern Methodist University may soon document what parents of many children learn every day: Childhood learning comes best through play. SMU is taking part in a five-year ...
Philadelphia has been declared the world’s first “Playful Learning City.” The designation comes from Playful Learning Landscapes, a Philly-based nonprofit that designs and installs low-impact play ...
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Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...
Playful Learning Center in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki was re-opened for children, teachers, students and teachers in the early childhood education and for all ...
Whether it’s in schools, at home, or in the community, learning should be fun! Children love to explore and discover. And learning through play does not mean a sacrifice of rigor or loss of ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
What if a bench were not just a bench? What if instead, it had puzzles on the back that could be arranged and rearranged to produce three separate pictures? Or if that bench became a scale that could ...