S2 Episode 6: Exploring 'living well' through children's play

In this episode, interviewer Kristin Reimer talks about the importance of play in education with Mervi Kaukko and Jane Wilkinson. Based on a chapter written with their colleague Nick Haswell, Jane and Mervi discuss a really interesting project that they embarked on to explore how children engage in free play at school in Australia and Finland and consider the insights this play might give into the double purpose of education. We learn about the importance of unstructured play and the intense and rich learnings that occur within play; and we also learn how crucial it is that adults in education make deliberate choices to put the arrangements in place so that there is time and space for such play.

For more, read Chapter 7: Exploring 'living well' through children's play by Mervi Kaukko, Nick Haswell and Jane Wilkinson.