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Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Adult Learning, 2025
This article, a conceptual and theoretical piece, opens a window on "playful learning" as a philosophy of education and a suite of diverse pedagogical approaches, methods, and techniques. The paper criticizes the serious ambience of adult education with its high levels of instrumentalism and performativity. It argues for playful learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Play, Ideology, Adult Learning
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Roger Mantie – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2024
Research suggests that when we treat our non-obligatory activities playfully, we are more likely to engage with them and derive meaningfulness from them. Play is of interest to the field of music education on at least two counts: the perceived relationship between play and music, and the perceived educational aspects of play related to human…
Descriptors: Music Education, Play, Music Activities, Barriers
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Blyth, Jamie – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2023
Play-based learning is a combination of rich play and curricular outcomes. When implemented in a classroom, play-based learning has a multitude of positive effects on the students, both academically and social-emotionally. As leaders of a play-based learning classroom, educators must understand the different types of play, how to create an…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
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Swart, Katie; Houser, Katie – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Academics is not the sole component of school readiness; rather, it is a compilation of children's physical, social--emotional, language, and cognitive development (National Association for the Education of Young Children [NAEYC], 2009; National Education Goal Panels, 1997). The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes
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Stasha Huntingford – Educational Action Research, 2025
This paper/visual art/puppet show is about the more-than-human entities who help me include my whole self in my teaching and other research. It is about how generative it is to be our whole, sacred, profane, glorious selves. This art reminds us of the importance of dreaming beyond what we have been told is possible. It demonstrates how irreverent,…
Descriptors: Play, Deception, Visual Arts, Puppetry
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Jennifer Clements – Childhood Education, 2024
Arts integration enriches learning experiences by fostering creativity, critical thinking, and emotional expression, thereby enhancing students' overall cognitive and social development.While all students benefit significantly from arts integration, students who struggle in a particular academic area can rediscover their love for learning.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Sensory Integration, Play, Creative Thinking
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André, Mauro H. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2023
Teaching new games among children should not be a new practice to many of students and yet, it does not mean that they will be able to do it well. Therefore, the teaching strategy of Learn-Teach-Play (LTP) seeks to create a simple three stage process in which students will practice their teaching and watch others model the same practice,…
Descriptors: Games, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Peer Teaching
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Helene Arbouet Harte; Jaesook L. Gilbert; Susan Griebling – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2022
Play allows children to experience joy in the moment of learning. Parrott and Cohen (2020) highlight the benefit of unstructured play to children's overall learning in their case study. Outdoor play typically has no restrictions or end goal in mind. The possibilities of outdoor learning experiences are endless for children as they experiment with…
Descriptors: Play, Outdoor Education, Preschool Education, Learner Engagement
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Rahn, Naomi L.; Storie, Sloan O.; Coogle, Christan Grygas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Vocabulary knowledge provides a critical foundation for later reading comprehension. Children with limited vocabularies and background knowledge often need many opportunities to learn a new word. One effective way to promote vocabulary acquisition for young children is to provide opportunities for children to learn new words throughout classroom…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Early Childhood Education, Reading Comprehension, Experiential Learning
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Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby; Adele Nickel – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
This article explores the relevance of Polyvagal Theory (PVT) to somatically-informed dance teaching methodologies. It aims to provide a neurophysiological basis for understanding the effectiveness of these teaching approaches and offer practical suggestions for how dance educators can incorporate concepts of PVT into their classroom experiences.
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Neurological Organization, Neurology
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Ryutaro Nishi – Childhood Education, 2024
Sozo Kurahashi's (1882-1955) theories, formed from his profound respect for children, have influenced Japanese early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners for a long time. They also have influenced the national ECEC curriculum in Japan, which emphasizes the need for a rich environment where children can actively learn and play rather…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Amanda England; Jo Bird; Sue Elliott; Marg Rogers – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Integral to the global nature play movement, nature play programs have flourished over the last decade, both in Australia and internationally. Internationally, there are two prominent schools of thought in this movement, Danish Nature Kindergartens, and British Forest Schools. The underpinning philosophy of Danish Nature Kindergarten programs has…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Play
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Allen, Louisa – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
In our conversations about sexuality, Kathleen Quinlivan and I mused over how a subject as potentially vibrant and life-enhancing as sexuality education could so often be taught in uninspiring and disembodied ways. Students' existing critique of much sexuality education is that it is typically disease and danger focused, marginalises the sensuous…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sensory Experience, Teaching Methods, Human Body
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Tuire Colliander – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This article presents explorations of co-choreographing the early years dance pedagogical settings through dialogical and intra-active approaches in the context of artistic research. It discusses how to choreograph the pedagogical settings in such a manner, that the distribution of the artistic agency would become more equal, and the complex…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Dance, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Ellen McKenzie – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Around the world, on every continent, and in every country, children play. Though culturally contextualized, play is a global common childhood experience. There are cultural variations in children's play activities, and though play looks and sounds different across the world, there are also commonalities. Though scholars find it difficult to…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Young Children
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