A three-pronged guide to introducing play into university teaching, based on its successful use in staff training at the University of Exeter Think back to your childhood. You may find that many of ...

Independent play is a skill your kids will use for the rest of their lives — and a way to claim some time for yourself during quarantine. By Kate Rope “When I was a kid, there was lots and lots of ...

Hetty Roessingh receives funding from SSHRC (2019). University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The ...

A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons, can be used to help children and teenagers ...

Pretend play is associated with a host of enhanced cognitive abilities such as executive function, language and perspective taking, which are important to education, making the minimization of pretend ...

This study examined and compared the effectiveness of a simultaneous prompting procedure used in both 1:1 and small group instruction to teach pretend play skills to a group of preschool students, ...