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KoopAcademy, 2019
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KoopAcademy, 2019
Spontaneity and Nature Play in Urban Environment
our experience with childcare cooperative centers in Bulgaria
Educational challenges
what we have
fuel for start
change
Rigid edu system
How often do we try to mold our children into the utopian image of the good, serious, civil children?
fuel
we have turned our schools into restricted institutions, ruled by obedience and competition
Our children have potential, competence, spirituality, talent and the only word that can describe our attempts to teach them something that we do not understand is violence.
we need a change
We rolled up our sleeves
we looked for:
what we wanted
- creativity
- nature play
- art
- curiosity
- joy
the tribe of children
messy play
play
outdoor play
we
love it
out
our community
It takes
a village
to raise a child
tribe
Ghosts from the past came to visit
obstacles
we had to work some things out:
- trust
- control
- where is the nature?
- what do we know about the natural learning process?
Is play a serious thing?
Seriously about play
seriously on play
Play is essential for learning and bringing new experience, it keeps us vital and alive.
It allows free expression, bonds relationships, steps over the horizon of possibilities and yet, keeps us present in the very moment.
“Play is foundational for bonding relationships and fostering tolerance. It's where we learn to trust and where we learn about the rules of the game. Play increases creativity and resilience (...) Play is the glue that binds us together.”
Isabel Behncke
Play and spontaneity, according to Moreno are the forces or factors that allow the individual not only to express the self, but also to create new works of art, new social and technological inventions, and new social environments. With a high level of spontaneity an individual will appear more vivacious, vigorous and infectious.
creativity
"Play is a free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being 'not serious but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. "
Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
“Play is freely chosen, personally directed, intrinsically motivated behavior that actively engages the child.”
National Playing Fields Association (NPFA)
mindfulness
Meeting the inner child
growth
Play has immense therapeutic value.
We needed to meet our own inner child in order to be good caregivers.
Are we compensating? Or we are healing our past so we can provide a better future.
“If you want to go further, go deeper”
natural play
nature
Where is the cat?
Pedagogical paradigms are never bigger than a single child
Are we capable of natural learning when we do not have a natural habitat?
In urban environment we do not live in a community with wise elders, supportive adults and tribe of children running around.
We are civilized, high-tech society, trusting the care of the young ones in the hands of the experts.
Yet, childcare cooperative places offer a family of families in a habitat we all share.