A lovely read about junkology from my friend and collegue @theplayactivist.bsky.social suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/the-junkol...

The Junkologist

understanding junkology

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When is the line crossed? Because world leaders seem to be ignoring everything that is blatantly obvious about what is really going on here from the start...

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Israel’s parliament has approved a symbolic measure calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank. Annexing occupied land is illegal under international law.

Play is play has become a blogpost... because there was more room to be able to articulate the complexity... of course even one blogpost cannot capture everything...

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.

‘Horrific scenes’ in Gaza as Israel kills dozens of aid seekers

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.

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Observation suggests that the opposite of “woke” is selfish, cruel and stupid.

School grounds are already feeling the effects of our rapidly changing climate 🌡️ Find out how nature rich outdoor spaces bolster climate resilience, encourage biodiversity, and promote climate action — and why school grounds must be part of the climate change solution 👇 ltl.org.uk/news/why-sch...

Why school grounds must be part of the climate change solution - Learning through Landscapes

Find out how school grounds can bolster climate resilience, encourage biodiversity, and promote climate action through learning and play in nature rich environments.

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Another national advisor here feeling honoured to be part of such an important movement to empower educators to ensure children's rights

Heather Bernt-Santy/That Early Childhood Nerd@ece-nerd.bsky.social · last yr.

It is an honor to serve as a national advisor for an organization like Defending the Early Years. Their work is so important. If you are not already registered for their FREE Summer Institute, it’s not too late! dey.org/summer-insti...

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

💥Freedom Flotilla Coalition Update💥 The #FreedomFlotillaCoalition confirms that 4 of the 12 abducted from international waters have been deported, while 8 remain unjustly detained. Israel is handling the custody of all 12 as though they had entered illegally— ...2/

I always saying opening a street for play is magical, often not spectacular, but the ordinary magic that Stuart Lester talks about. No wonder those who try it want more. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Residents of street where cars banned for kids to play say 'make it permanent'

The road, near a city primary school, was temporarily closed down to all forms of traffic

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This is another good article on this topic. Let’s hope we can move on from strait jacket of faux ‘cog sci’ and factory-school TLAC very soon.

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Sue Cowley@suecowley.bsky.social · last yr.

Very interesting article. Plenty of implications for education in terms of getting away from the 'brain = a computer' metaphor.

New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots ...

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The last instalment of the livestream as we saw the Madleen off earlier today. To follow the vessel on the journey you can follow them with this tracker: live.garmin.com/session/75cf... freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/01/a... (updated with the names of the 12 people on board Madleen).

Day 2- a beautiful sunrise as the Madleen sails to Gaza. #BreakTheSiege #sunrise #FromTheRiverToTheSea

Play as a form of thinking Play as a language Play as being and becoming Play....

Joolone@joolone.bsky.social · last yr.

I see Play’s magnificent fusion of thoughts, actions and discovery as a form of thinking in itself. A primal language simultaneously abstract and concrete, relishing the unexpected, loved by mind, heart and body, and birthplace to innovation.

When it comes to the crunch its autonomy and flow that I think, as play-responsive educators we need to focus our attention on... Creating space for a collective autonomy where we can be our authentic self together with others. 1.

We've got lots of videos of Colwyn talking in this month's sessions for #TheTrevarthenSeries. And we're going to get learn about some of the other researchers working with film, on whose work he built. connectedbaby.net/product/june...

June 2025 - The Trevarthen Series: Studying babies through film - connected baby

June 2025 - Our latest course within The Trevarthen Series will traces the increasing capacities of movie cameras over the past decades have helped scientists to carry out sophisticated analyses of th...

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I think this text is a fabulous example of understanding aesthetic as full of feeling (rather than beautiful) - after all anaesthetic is the lack of feeling/sensation. Art in all its forms awakens feelings - so context is of course is going to be important as to what feelings are stirred...

Dr DaN McKee@authenticdmckee.bsky.social · last yr.

Thinking about why Adam Sandler movies seem better on a plane than they do on the ground, and why it took me multiple attempts to get to page 50 in what eventually became one of my favourite books in this week’s #Philosophy Unleashed: www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/213-... #aesthetics #art

Play England's new strategy recognises all the ways children play & that it's not them that need fixing but the systems round them. bit.ly/43AoFlFC Congrats @eugeneminogue.bsky.social @profhelendodd.bsky.social @naomilott.bsky.social Paul Brindley @mic-martin.bsky.social @geekdadgamer.bsky.social

106415 Play England - Strategy Document FINAL

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This post explores how children communicate with the world differently from adults... and that play has its own evolving language suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/the-langua... How do you notice children's dialogue with the world?

The Language of Play

Just before the pandemic I started to walk the land as a way to decolonise the way I think and see the world.

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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.

A child's right to scrapes and bruises while playing suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/a-childs-r...

A child's right to bruises and grazes

the ouchy side of democracy

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If someone asked you to draw a cat in school, would you feel free to make the decision to draw one or not? All the children drew one today when asked! Freedom was the topic of conversation at this week’s P4C Club funded by donations from #WonderWander24.

How depressing that we still have teachers with so little understanding of child protection. If children are trained to be obedient to adults in authority over them, it makes them more vulnerable to abuse. Supporting children’s autonomy and right to make their own choices protects them from abuse.

A country rooted in trust can have toilet signs like this... A country rooted in fear, ignorance and hate cannot. Left- Konstfack, Stockholm Right - Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm Toilets used safely this week.

"It took us few weeks of tactical implementation to reclaim it as a public space... The children needed just a couple of hours to transform it into a playground.” 📍 Milan 🇮🇹

A pedagogy of hope is found in authentic relationships, with the children, colleagues and parents. It is found in small acts of kindness. 1

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Thanks to the good folks at @londonplay.bsky.social for sharing this photo story on London adventure playgrounds from the @londonmuseum.bsky.social

London Museum Photo Story – From Wartime Bomb Sites to Adventure Playgrounds

Thanks to the good folks at London Play for sharing this photo story from the London Museum – great pics and commentary. We’ve been deprived of the adventure playground experience in Ca…

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A must read

Iveta Silova@isilova.bsky.social · last yr.

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again. 🔗 theconversation.com/universities... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation