Emancipation of Childhood: Ecologies of reintegration of children in the  socio-cultural sphere
Channel: KINDknow - BARNkunne
Date: 10/01/2024

In this KINDknow guest lecture from Dr. Ana Marjanovic-Shane, she explores the diverse potentials of play and playful practices in education. In this lecture inspired by her mother Aleksandra "Sanda" Marjanovic's pedagogical approach to early childhood upbringing and care, as well as her own studies of play and metaphor as meaning-making ontological and epistemological practices, she explores the question of whether play is an instrument or tool for the achievement of unrelated adult-imposed goals or whether play is a dynamic principle of meaning-making that can recreate education into an open meaning-making praxis with the potential of reintegrating childhood in the larger socio-cultural sphere.