Sarai, age 3, proudly shares her artwork at LWB’s Early Childhood Development Center, where play-based lessons help children build confidence and curiosity. A teacher guides her students through a ...

Evolutionarily speaking, we are built to enjoy learning. Neuroscientists (and those of us who spend time with young children) know this to be true—but institutionalized education tends to dim the joy ...

These strategies help teachers set up engaging and enriching opportunities for literacy exploration throughout the day.

Over the course of her career, Temple University's Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has spent a lot of time worrying not just about how to increase playtime in school, but also how to reach kids outside of school.

Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...

Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...

A new study from LEGO® Education shows that teachers believe learning through play is more effective than traditional methods, and students say they want more of it in the classroom. LEGO Education is ...

Whether it’s in schools, at home, or in the community, learning should be fun! Children love to explore and discover. And learning through play does not mean a sacrifice of rigor or loss of ...

A student demonstrates a double-maze board activity play system that helps develop motor skills, learning and concentration for all children. A team of researchers at SMU is studying active, playful ...

For children, playful learning is serious learning. “That’s how children learn best,” said Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp professor of education at the University of Delaware and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Regina Robinson isn’t used to being asked what she wants out of her home. But for about a year, architects and designers had detailed discussions with her and other tenants at the ...