Learning to play?

These are my latest ideas on why all all good learning is play and all good play is learning:

•We learn most things by accident and very little in isolation: free play

•Learning moments are triggered when our internal working models are no longer fit for purpose: discovery play

•By becoming aware of incongruence, we can become critical and curious. This is both empowering and transformative: growing play

•Discoveries are only made when errors are celebrated (contrary to much of the history of education - Ed) : pick-yourself-up-and-have-another-go play

•A diverse social context for learning enriches all the learners and may lead from individual to social transformation: group play

•All good learning and all good scholarship are play, or learnplay

Learn Play?

Is it a sequence? The bell rings... to the classroom. The bell rings... to the playground.

Is it what an actor does? Ensuring every speech and action conforms to the playwright's script.

Is it the drama itself? To watch or participate in the process called learn.

Is it an instruction? Here are the rules, the equipment, the tactics. Now play the game.

Is it simultaneous activity? Learning and playing co-existing in symbiotic relationship.

Is it a kind of play? Not just play, but learn play. The type of play where learning is the natural, inevitable consequence of play.

But then why not just one word?

PLAY!