Playworlds are a performatory approach to early childhood education that brings children and teachers together to create an imaginary world where they can all develop emotionally, cognitively, and socially. Dr. Beth Ferholt of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is one of the world’s leading practitioners and theorists of the Playworld approach. Here she comes together with Dr. Carrie Lobman, Professor of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers University and Leader, Education, and Research for the East Side Institute to explore this radically playful path to early childhood development.
Places to learn about Beth’s work and the work of The International Playworld Network and Playworld of Creative Research:
workhttps://lchcautobio.ucsd.edu/polyphonic-autobiography/section-5/chapter-14/
www.helsinki.fi/child
https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=927
https://culturalpraxis.net/imagination-and-creativity-in-vygotskys-works-seminar-series/
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Welcome to All Power to the Developing, a podcast of the East Side Institute. The Institute is a center for social change efforts that reinitiate human and community development. We support, connect, and partner with committed and creative activists, scholars, artists, helpers, and healers all over the world. In 2003, Institute co-founders Lois Holzman and the late Fred Newman had a paper published with the title “All Power to the Developing.” This phrase captures how vital it is for all people—no matter their age, circumstance, status, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation—to grow, develop and transform emotionally, socially and intellectually if we are to have a shot at creating something positive out of the intense crises we’re all experiencing. We hope that this podcast series will show you that, far more than a slogan, “all power to the developing” is a loving activity, a pulsing heart in an all too cruel world.
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Ep.8 Afterschool Development: A New Way of Engaging Poverty
Ep.7 Relating to All as Givers and Builders
Ep.6 Bringing Creative Play into the College Classroom
Ep.5 Bringing Play and Performance to Communities of Color
Ep.4 A Turning Point for India’s Mentally Ill
Ep.3 London All Stars Youth Find Their Power
Ep.2 Border Crossers Build Their Culture
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