Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Connecticut teachers want you to know that “play-based learning” is not an oxymoron. For years child development and education experts have praised the benefits of play-based learning — a pedagogy ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Baby’s eyes peer into everyone and everything to search for reactions, expressions, shapes, and textures. Their little hands and legs want to hold, touch, and kick things, and their brains are forming ...

A bill requiring Iowa preschools and kindergartens to add play-based learning to their curriculum is advancing in the Iowa Legislature. House File 2652 was recommended for passage by a subcommittee ...