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Suzanne Axelsson

@theplayactivist.bsky.social
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The Original Learning Approach is a play responsive pedagogy rooted in social justice Play activist - because if play flows the children will thrive. Some words that feel important to me Collective autonomy, decolonisation, wonder, curiosity, joy...

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Linda Linder @lindalinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A lovely read about junkology from my friend and collegue @theplayactivist.bsky.social suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/the-junkol...
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The Junkologist
understanding junkology
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
When is the line crossed? Because world leaders seem to be ignoring everything that is blatantly obvious about what is really going on here from the start...
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Play is play has become a blogpost... because there was more room to be able to articulate the complexity... of course even one blogpost cannot capture everything...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/07/2025
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
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‘Horrific scenes’ in Gaza as Israel kills dozens of aid seekers
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Observation suggests that the opposite of “woke” is selfish, cruel and stupid.
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Learning through Landscapes @ltlnews.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
School grounds are already feeling the effects of our rapidly changing climate 🌡️ Find out how nature rich outdoor spaces bolster climate resilience, encourage biodiversity, and promote climate action — and why school grounds must be part of the climate change solution 👇 ltl.org.uk/news/why-sch...
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Why school grounds must be part of the climate change solution - Learning through Landscapes
Find out how school grounds can bolster climate resilience, encourage biodiversity, and promote climate action through learning and play in nature rich environments.
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Another national advisor here feeling honoured to be part of such an important movement to empower educators to ensure children's rights
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
💥Freedom Flotilla Coalition Update💥 The #FreedomFlotillaCoalition confirms that 4 of the 12 abducted from international waters have been deported, while 8 remain unjustly detained. Israel is handling the custody of all 12 as though they had entered illegally— ...2/
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I always saying opening a street for play is magical, often not spectacular, but the ordinary magic that Stuart Lester talks about. No wonder those who try it want more. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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Residents of street where cars banned for kids to play say 'make it permanent'
The road, near a city primary school, was temporarily closed down to all forms of traffic
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is another good article on this topic. Let’s hope we can move on from strait jacket of faux ‘cog sci’ and factory-school TLAC very soon.
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots ...
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The last instalment of the livestream as we saw the Madleen off earlier today. To follow the vessel on the journey you can follow them with this tracker: live.garmin.com/session/75cf... freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/01/a... (updated with the names of the 12 people on board Madleen).
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Catania Jun 1, 2025 | LiveTrack
LiveTrack creates a real-time view of your location during an activity, so friends and family can follow along.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Day 2- a beautiful sunrise as the Madleen sails to Gaza. #BreakTheSiege #sunrise #FromTheRiverToTheSea
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Play as a form of thinking Play as a language Play as being and becoming Play....
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
When it comes to the crunch its autonomy and flow that I think, as play-responsive educators we need to focus our attention on... Creating space for a collective autonomy where we can be our authentic self together with others. 1.
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connected baby @connectedbaby.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We've got lots of videos of Colwyn talking in this month's sessions for #TheTrevarthenSeries. And we're going to get learn about some of the other researchers working with film, on whose work he built. connectedbaby.net/product/june...
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June 2025 - The Trevarthen Series: Studying babies through film - connected baby
June 2025 - Our latest course within The Trevarthen Series will traces the increasing capacities of movie cameras over the past decades have helped scientists to carry out sophisticated analyses of th...
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I think this text is a fabulous example of understanding aesthetic as full of feeling (rather than beautiful) - after all anaesthetic is the lack of feeling/sensation. Art in all its forms awakens feelings - so context is of course is going to be important as to what feelings are stirred...
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Wendy Russell @wendyrussell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Play England's new strategy recognises all the ways children play & that it's not them that need fixing but the systems round them. bit.ly/43AoFlFC Congrats @eugeneminogue.bsky.social @profhelendodd.bsky.social @naomilott.bsky.social Paul Brindley @mic-martin.bsky.social @geekdadgamer.bsky.social
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106415 Play England - Strategy Document FINAL
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This post explores how children communicate with the world differently from adults... and that play has its own evolving language suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/the-langua... How do you notice children's dialogue with the world?
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The Language of Play
Just before the pandemic I started to walk the land as a way to decolonise the way I think and see the world.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A child's right to scrapes and bruises while playing suzanneaxelsson.substack.com/p/a-childs-r...
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A child's right to bruises and grazes
the ouchy side of democracy
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Thoughtful @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If someone asked you to draw a cat in school, would you feel free to make the decision to draw one or not? All the children drew one today when asked! Freedom was the topic of conversation at this week’s P4C Club funded by donations from #WonderWander24.
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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
How depressing that we still have teachers with so little understanding of child protection. If children are trained to be obedient to adults in authority over them, it makes them more vulnerable to abuse. Supporting children’s autonomy and right to make their own choices protects them from abuse.
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A country rooted in trust can have toilet signs like this... A country rooted in fear, ignorance and hate cannot. Left- Konstfack, Stockholm Right - Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm Toilets used safely this week.
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"It took us few weeks of tactical implementation to reclaim it as a public space... The children needed just a couple of hours to transform it into a playground.” 📍 Milan 🇮🇹
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A pedagogy of hope is found in authentic relationships, with the children, colleagues and parents. It is found in small acts of kindness. 1
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.
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PlayGroundology @playgroundology.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thanks to the good folks at @londonplay.bsky.social for sharing this photo story on London adventure playgrounds from the @londonmuseum.bsky.social
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London Museum Photo Story – From Wartime Bomb Sites to Adventure Playgrounds
Thanks to the good folks at London Play for sharing this photo story from the London Museum – great pics and commentary. We’ve been deprived of the adventure playground experience in Ca…
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Nina Odegard @ninaodegard.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A must read
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Essential viewing from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social If you live in a western nation, and you watch just one video today, this should be it. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Recently I have been thinking about competition and how it affects our lives. It really is just everywhere. 1.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."
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The opposite of fascism
Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors
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SIREN FILMS @sirenfilms.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
OUT TODAY!! Download your free copy. Written by practitioners and early years specialists, with links to our clips in each chapter and a foreword by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social A must read for everyone working with young children. www.early-years-reviews.com/play-matters #playmatters #sirenfilms
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Debi Keyte-Hartland @debikeyte-hartland.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am hoping that I might get some help spreading the word about my 2nd year student’s MA research project on physical environments that engender creativity. Please share with anyone who you think might be interested. Many thanks!🙏
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Pedagogiska Kullerbyttan @kullerbyttan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Vad betyder något om hundra år? 🌲🌲🌲🌲🐦‍⬛🦉
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Vad betyder något om hundra år?
Vi går tysta genom skogen. Vill någon prata så viskar vi med varandra. Det är jag och sju barn som går på ett litet led med mjuka steg och lyssnar noga. Vi är på ett undersökarstråk förstår ni, vi …
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Pedagogiska Kullerbyttan @kullerbyttan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Vad vill världen med oss? 🌊
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Vad vill världen med oss?
Gert Biesta, pedagog och professor i utbildning, ställer frågan som förskjuter det individcentrerade perspektivet mot ett kollektivt perspektiv och mot ett givande istället för ett tagande. Han skr…
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Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
British Science Week is about #smashingstereotypes ‘Children from low income backgrounds ‘make poor progress in science at every stage of their school careers’. My latest column for TES considers how we should tackle this in early years. www.tes.com/magazine/tea... @britsciassoc.bsky.social
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Where we’re going wrong with science in early years
Closing the attainment gap in science for disadvantaged young people will require a more nuanced approach in EYFS, argues Julian Grenier
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International Froebel Society @intfroebelsociety.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here's a gentle reminder to register at the early bird rate by 29 March. The full programme is on the website now, too, including presentations/workshops & excursions. 🤩 #froebel @froebeltrust.bsky.social www.uni-erfurt.de/erziehungswi...
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International Froebel Society 11th Biennal Conference Erfurt
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Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) CIC @opal-cic.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Playtime makes up 20% of a child’s primary school life, so we should approach play as if it is a curricular area. If you're a primary school headteacher interested in unlocking the power of play, request an intro meeting via our contact form: www.outdoorplayandlearning.org.uk/contact-us
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Kathy Brodie Early Years TV @earlyyears.tv · 14/03/2025
New FREE Episode Alert! 🌟 Lauren Bradshaw shares practical insights on integrating digital learning in Early Years education. Learn how to use tech as a complementary tool for engaging learning experiences while extending children's interests beyond the classroom. www.earlyyears.tv/episode/l...
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annkronberglarsson.bsky.social @annkronberglarsson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Jag har skrivit tre delar om makt. Är bekymrad över att barns inflytande i undervisningen riskerar att minska. www.tankaromforskola.se/tankar/makt-...
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Makt i förskolan – del 3 - Tankar om Förskola
Hur kan förskollärare balansera ledarskap och barns delaktighet för att skapa en trygg och utvecklande miljö?
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A Playful City @aplayfulcity.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Streets designed for play, not just car drivers! There's a vision for a 1km-long ‘play link’ for families, offering a dedicated space for recreation. It's all about putting people first & creating a truly liveable and playful community... www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Manchester's new 'woodland town' where the streets will be for kids, not cars
“We want safe, compact streets"
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Wendy Russell @wendyrussell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Webinar 3 in our series looks at play sufficiency at local govt level. Tues 1 April, 12.30-14.00 GMT. Contributors: Jenny Rutherford (Leeds), Etive Currie (Glasgow), Tracey Jobber (Sandwell), Gareth Stacey (Wrexham). Curated by Ludicology & me, supported by Play Wales. To book: play.wales/events/.
Promotional flyer for webinar on play sufficiency at local authority level, 1 April 12.30-14.00 GMT. Picture of a white boy climbing a tree.
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Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Calling everyone in early years education and childcare: You can sign up to my free monthly newsletter, Early Years Evidence in Action, on LinkedIn. It’s an accessible rundown of the month’s latest research. March issue out now! www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
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Dr Jools Page #ProfessionalLove @drjoolspage.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Moved over to @bsky.app - check out our recent publication: Page, J., Roffey-Barentsen, J., & Clough, P. (2025). COVID-19: everyday stories of life in lockdown as told by parents of young children in England. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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COVID-19: everyday stories of life in lockdown as told by parents of young children in England
Pandemic-focused projects in Early Childhood have amplified concerns such as child poverty, separation/attachment, maternal anxiety, and other health issues. However, significant attention in actua...
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Alice Ferguson @aliceferguson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Pavement life. When shared doorstep space was children’s everyday play space. @playingout.bsky.social
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This has always been something that has bothered me here in Sweden too - the early years works so hard (well most do) on creating a space for autonomy, agency, participation, inclusion and democracy which then is replaced by subjects, tests, compliance and individualism later on so that when (1)
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Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There are many ideas, bias and prejudices that limit our ability to notice play as play and shift it in to "unwanted behaviour" or "dangerous" or some other category that then shapes our adult brains as to how we are supposed to respond. 1
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Catherine in Leeds - an amazing advocate and activist - did a great job explaining the value of play streets, and encouraging residents across the UK to get involved. More info on how to get started here: playingout.net/play-streets...
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Start a play street on your street - Playing Out
An easy introduction to getting started with play streets where you live. Find tips and resources for making your street a place to play!
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