Connecticut teachers want you to know that “play-based learning” is not an oxymoron. For years child development and education experts have praised the benefits of play-based learning — a pedagogy ...

A third grade student sets the last domino down in a row along the edge of a table while playing in Crystal O’Brien’s classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City. Credit: Ariel ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Five decades ago, long before full-day kindergarten and its focus on reading, a group of parents were already concerned about the academic demands on young children. They opened a ...

Accra, Nov. 07, GNA – The Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, a Deputy Minister of Education, says the new educational curriculum’s play-based teaching and learning is the best approach to teaching children ...

Since 1949, teachers and parents have joined forces at the Davis Parent Nursery School to provide youngsters a play-based education. Now in 2022, this organization continues to develop social skills, ...

The curriculum review is an opportunity to rethink how we can protect play-based pedagogy beyond Reception, says play campaigner Ruth Lue-Quee 'England remains the only UK nation where play-based ...

Campaigners want classrooms to match how young children actually learn, not ones that force them to grow up too fast. MPs have debated extending learning through play into Year 1 and 2 at primary ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two third-graders sat on the floor of their classroom and lined up a row of dominoes along the edge of a low-lying table. They positioned themselves at each end of the row of ...