Playful Pedagogy: The Power of Play in Teaching & Learning

Designed for doctoral students, post-docs, and early-career scholars, Scholar Forward is a monthly workshop series that offers practical ideas, resources, and conversation about the work of being a scholar. Each month, we’ll explore a different topic across three tracks: Teaching, Research, and Praxis.

Each one-hour session will include a focused workshop, followed by Q&A and dialogue, with ample room for conversation and exchange.

Playful Pedagogy: The Power of Play in Teaching and Learning. Play is central to how children learn: the way they form and explore friendships; the way they shape and test hypotheses; the way they make sense of their world. Much is known about the importance

of play in children’s development, yet little empirical research has explored what it might mean to put play at the center of formal education. There is even less empirical evidence about play for adult learners, though anecdotal evidence suggests it might be…