Playfulness, Pedagogy, and Patrician Values

Feminist Pedagogy and Education in Values

Gout: the patrician malady

Aborigines, the repercussions of European contact for levels of native infection and the racial discrimination inherent in the coercive regulations adopted to isolate Aboriginal victims of the disease. More contemporary concerns over the prevalence of HIV/AIDs in the Aboriginal people provides a preamble to a general consideration of the social and governmental responses to the "modern plague" ...

Holistic school pedagogy and values: Finnish teachers’ and students’ perspectives

The purpose of the study was to identify the components of holistic school pedagogy as identified by a sample of Finnish secondary school teachers and students from two schools. Holistic pedagogy concerns the development of the whole student and acknowledges the cognitive, social, moral, emotional and spiritual dimensions of education. The data were gathered in spring 2008 and include 19 interv...

Playfulness and creativity

Why don’t we see more invertebrates playing? Play may have arisen in vertebrate lineages as a by-product of traits associated with the complex behaviours and cognitive abilities, in turn associated with increased brain size. Although we know that invertebrates are far from the mindless machines they were once considered to be, it might be that the neural architecture available to add new levels...

Adolescent Playfulness and Well-being

of Papers Presented at the Eleventh Canadian Congress on Leisure Research