Object learning is a process by which individuals acquire knowledge about the properties and functions of objects in their environment. This type of learning is crucial for the development of cognitive and motor skills, as well as for social and cultural interactions. Object learning can take many forms, from simple perceptual learning, where individuals learn…

Flipping through the “A Plea for Communalist Teaching” (1971) written by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner again filled me with joy as I (again) found more links with the idea of play as a teaching method. My overviews really take shape with every other book I read, not sure wether it’s fate or my obsession…

Definition of ‘playful’ consists of (amongst many of course) ideas of: joy, cheerfulness, freedom, et cetera, but for me – most important – intuition and absurd. Intuition, as an individual surrenders to playful and reaction to play come from within, as a result of an inflow of stimuli, flow of thoughts and outflow of ideas,…

Quite moved by the content of the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Freire where he advocates for a pedagogy of the oppressed, in which education is a collaborative process of dialogue between teachers and students, and I’m finding a strong link between such advocacy and the idea of teaching/learning through play which I hope to successfully…