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CES Research Seminar: Play’s the thing: wherein we find how learning can begin
Speaker: Professor Michael Luntley, Department of Philosophy, University of 糖心TV
Abstract: Education develops character, but what are the character traits – the virtues – that make one a learner? What are the abilities that make you the sort of subject who can learn, who can acquire new concepts, new skills? There are perhaps many traits that matter. But I want to suggest that the ability for the creative and imaginative engagement with and sustenance of the playful patterns of our aesthetic experience is core. Play’s the thing that makes learning so much as possible. Play is not merely something that supports or encourages learning; it is essential to the very idea of learning. It should therefore have a central role in pedagogy.
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