playful thoughts on games and learning
The Exploring Adult Playfulness Project aims to gather baseline data on different types of playfulness in the adult population. An information sheet is available here to download. If you are 18 years old or above and would like to complete…
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So my New Year’s resolution is (once again) to blog more regularly. Rather than start with a rant about the state of the world in general, and Higher Education in the UK in particular, I’m going to keep this one…
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On Monday I had a paper deadline for a journal special issue. It wasn’t the final deadline but the only free day I had between then and the actual deadline in which I could write a first draft. Typically, I…
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So, I’ve finally got a spare moment to sit down and write. I’ve been away twice in the last ten days to two different – and equally awesome events. First, I was presenting at the Society for Research in Higher…
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We have recently set a book club focused on books around play in adulthood from different disciplinary perspectives. We meet once every two months in Manchester to discuss the current book, and thoughts around play and games in general. Sometimes…
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I’ve been talking a lot over the last year about the importance of failure in learning, and how play can provide a context for that failure (summarized in this Conversation piece and this article in the Guardian by Andy Walsh). I have…
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