Evolutionarily speaking, we are built to enjoy learning. Neuroscientists (and those of us who spend time with young children) know this to be true—but institutionalized education tends to dim the joy ...

Sarai, age 3, proudly shares her artwork at LWB’s Early Childhood Development Center, where play-based lessons help children build confidence and curiosity. A teacher guides her students through a ...

A student demonstrates a double-maze board activity play system that helps develop motor skills, learning and concentration for all children. A team of researchers at SMU is studying active, playful ...

At the University’s Playful Learning Center, early education researchers work together with companies. The first groups of children can visit the City Centre Campus research space on 16 September. The ...

Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...

Over the course of her career, Temple University's Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has spent a lot of time worrying not just about how to increase playtime in school, but also how to reach kids outside of school.

Students at DCMO BOCES participated in a hands-on “Playful Learning” workshop led by Coordinator of Staff and Curriculum Development Christine Newell. The class' learning approach leverages an ...

For children, playful learning is serious learning. “That’s how children learn best,” said Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp professor of education at the University of Delaware and ...

Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...

Whether it’s in schools, at home, or in the community, learning should be fun! Children love to explore and discover. And learning through play does not mean a sacrifice of rigor or loss of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...