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OCTOBER Masterclass
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A 60-minute Masterclass for early childhood educators.
Join Dr. Jo Fahey to gain new insights into play and playful learning, including the connections between play and process drama and play and dramatization of a text.
October 4, 05:30 am UTC
with Dr. Jo Fahey
Learning Through Play:
How Children Teach Themselves
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- Looking for practical strategies to protect play when academic pressures leave little room for it?
- Wanting to understand what children are really learning through play, even when it looks purposeless?
- Trying to set up an environment that orchestrates rich, open-ended play choices for children?
Stuart Brown calls play the product of "divinely superfluous neurons" that emerge innately when a child feels safe and well fed. What does it take, environmentally and adult-side, to give that innate drive room to actually show up?
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Refine your understanding
iI children's play looks purposeless to us, that may say more about what we're failing to notice than about the play itself. What are children quietly missing out on when coverage of the curriculum crowds play out?
How does a child's spontaneous play connect to process drama and to the dramatization of a story, and what does one reveal about the other?
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What's at stake when play is squeezed out
Join us to DISCOVER:
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Where play meets drama
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What enables play to flourish.
Meet your Presenter,
Dr. Jo Fahey
Dr Jo Fahey has spent over 30 years teaching and leading in the Early Years, across both international and national schools. If you know her work, you know how rare it is to combine deep research with genuine, joyful practice with young children. If you don't yet know her, this is a great chance to.
Jo's own research led to a doctoral dissertation and a book published by the International Baccalaureate, Ways to Learn Through Inquiry: Guiding Children to Deeper Understanding. She continues to stay closely connected to current research and developments in early childhood education, across a wide range of settings and contexts.
Your Masterclass Presenter
As opportunities for play diminish, we need to challenge the status quo and become bold, brave advocates for children. Where others remain unconvinced that children learn through play, we can document and show that learning — and provide evidence of children struggling when academic pressures leave too little room for play.