Switch or Stick?

Is play research? We talk ethics, practice, measuring and ponder what finding out about play is all about and why do we do it.

Sarah and Max both bring an object from children’s play worlds which leads to chats about using food in play, setting up cafes, and democracy…

What are museums for? Are they evidence of adults play with collecting? Can you play in them? What happens when you do…In this chat we mention some researchers – here’s the blog about young children in museum https://abigailhackett.com/2023/02/27/supporting-young-childrens-language-through-place-and-movement-at-humber-museums-partnerships-museums/And here’s the exhibition about play at the Baltic in Gateshead -thttps://baltic.art/whats-on/11-albert-potrony-equal-play/

You’ve made it to our third podcast – so time to share our first conversation - we chat about our reaction to the film No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – shot with children across in the UK in Wales in 2019 (pre-Covid). Rides in shopping trolleys, farting, working out what working class means, I spy, and British Bulldogs. No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – article and link to film on youtube https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/08/the-games-children-play-why-we-let-kids-take-over-our-film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLn83syQmU

Max and Sarah chat about plastics in play environments, sustainability, aesthetics, values and how we make sense of the world with deviations into gun and superhero play and a dip into gender. We talk about a microblog by the commonworlds collective: "How does intensifying plastics’ presence in the classroom invite children to practice curiosity and disrupt indifference?" which you can access here: http://commonworlds.net/how-does-intensifying-plastics-presence-in-the-classroom-invite-children-to-practice-curiosity-and-disrupt-indifference/

No, not a card game, but us chatting about the possibilities of play objects from light switches to sticks. Natural or plastic, or telephones in the trees…