I grew up in the 1970s to 1980s. Gender was viewed as sexually dimorphic, or rather, I was not aware of the variance. The acceptance of homosexuality was becoming more accepted, and along with it, the idea of there being different types of sexualities was starting to filter through. Gender roles were also fairly ingrained….
With a dry summer, I deliberately avoided doing too much to the garden and let the lawn grow to avoid stressing the plants too much. Watering every few days, occasionally once a week, in the evenings and making sure anything newly planted this year and trying to establish itself was well watered. Although there has…
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Beginnings start somewhere… I’ve had an interest in plants since childhood and lucky enough to have parents who both supported my interest and took me to places like the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley and the occasional RHS Chelsea Flower Show. For those not in the know, Wisley is the RHS’s flagship garden, covering…
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/learning-and-leadership/research/power-play-pop-role-and-value-play-supporting-early-learning-and-development#:~:text=Play%20not%20only%20offers%20children,children%27s%20early%20learning%20and%20development This was a review of published studies on the effects of play in children aged 3-8 years. Compiling the findings of studies available in the British Education Index, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Scopus, Web of Science, and PsycINFO. 62 studies were identified that met the criteria of having empirical data, the children had…
Mailshot mailbox management I am definitely signed up to too many newsletters and mail shots. You know those newsletters by companies wanting to tell you about the latest products or offers, etc. The ones you generally sign up for in advance that are not junk – and occasionally I read one that catches my eye….
How do you react to the idea of children being wet or messy or muddy? Do worry about the actual state of being messy? The hassle of sorting them out? Cleaning up? What others might think of you? Something else? One of my earliest experiences in youth work was seeing both children’s enjoyment of being…
It’s fairly easy to define play, or is it? “Play: any spontaneous or organized activity that provides enjoyment, entertainment, amusement, or diversion” Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press What about… “Play is often defined as activity done for its own sake, characterized by means rather than ends” Peter Smith & Anthony Pellegrini (2023), Learning Through Play,…
It’s a major move that affects several domains I control. Less obvious is the move of funandgames.org to a new hosting provider, but it’s retained its own identity. A lot of the decision to move was financial, but there was also an administrative component, which just made sense. Both Learning Technologies Zone and Kit Logan…
It’s easy to make the wrong assumptions about what we see or are told when we don’t know the full story. John Arendt wrote an article in 2017 called “The picture didn’t tell the whole story” for the Summerland Review (https://www.summerlandreview.com/opinion/column-the-picture-didnt-tell-the-whole-story-4138835). The piece centres around the image above showing a group of young people seated…
