Welcome to Episode #11 of Flourishing in the World, a podcast exploring topics related to personal and professional growth, and working toward living a worthy life. I am excited to share this interview with my colleague, Dr. Kim Nesbitt. Dr. Nesbitt is a psychologist and associate professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies here at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Nesbitt and I discuss her research on playful learning, a pedagogical approach that seeks to incorporate play to achieve educational goals. As we discuss in the podcast, playful learning is an approach that tries to tap into children's natural curiosity to create meaningful and joyful learning experiences.
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UNH Receives $2.3M in Grant Funding to Improve Early Childhood Learning in NH and Beyond https://chhs.unh.edu/blog/2024/03/unh-receives-23m-grant-funding-improve-early-childhood-learning-nh-beyond
Making Schools Work: Bringing the Science of Learning to Joyful Classroom Practice https://amzn.to/3DwOubN
Investigating the contributions of active, playful learning to student interest and educational outcomes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823001592
Making schools work: An equation for active playful learning https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00405841.2023.2202136
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