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A challenge for playwork: The scary world of 12 year olds

plexity wrote 1 month ago: Reblogged from Parenting And Stuff: It was an evening last week when I learned that my 12 years old … more →

Tags: children|communities, Praxis, PublicRealm, children-related 'professions', Complexity, Child Rearing, Systems, Children, playwork

Teacher Tom: The Shape Of The Block In My Hand

plexity wrote 1 month ago: Teacher Tom: The Shape Of The Block In My Hand.   Lots of wisdom in this blog. It’s also … more →

Tags: children|communities, humour|wisdom?, Play, Child Rearing, Children, playwork, Education, Children Youth and Family, Child

My favourite A.S.Neill anecdote: if it featured a car, I could have called it 'Cars and Girls'4 comments

plexity wrote 1 month ago: Here’s my favourite Neill anecdote, told in my own words. It works like a stun grenade lobbed … more →

Tags: children|communities, elegancies, Praxis, children-related 'professions', Complexity, Play, Child Rearing, Wisdom, Children

Arising in the playspace: what is the role of the playworker?10 comments

plexity wrote 1 month ago: Thank you to Morgan for sharing this quote: “I am of course employed as a leader, but on an adventur … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, Praxis, children-related 'professions', Complexity, Play, Child Rearing, Children, playwork

A Design History of Childhood

plexity wrote 1 month ago: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainpickings/rss/~3/wANMTTMt3KQ/ Fascinating and inspiring stuff, lo … more →

Tags: children|communities, PublicRealm, Play, Children, Design

Has the play movement* done it's job? Do we even need to save it? Should we just shut up and let playful people remake the world, in a onesie, one library at a time?

plexity wrote 1 month ago: Definition (extract – Encyclopaedia Ludica, 5th edition 2027) *Play Movement, The  (UK termino … more →

Tags: children|communities, humour|wisdom?, PublicRealm, Innovation, Play, Society, Education, Community, yet another warped adult playtype

Even the sports guys think there is not enough play and too much testing

plexity wrote 1 month ago:   “I told a friend today that it’s time to take a stand. Here is that stand. “I have been an ad … more →

Tags: children|communities, managerialism|bureaucracy, PublicRealm, capitalism, Child, Children, children-related 'professions', Education, Fitness

Time and play and life and flow

plexity wrote 2 months ago: Reblogged from playworkings: It has been conference week in the playwork ‘world’ (as you who were al … more →

Tags: children|communities, Praxis, liked|longer pieces, diablog - a dialogue within a blog, diablog with Joel Seath

PDF download: Telephone Coaching and Boosters leaflet (PLAYWORK MANAGEMENT)2 comments

plexity wrote 2 months ago:  TELEPHONE COACHING AND BOOSTERS LEAFLET click the image or this link: http://goo.gl/w3tPF   and it … more →

Tags: complexity|management, PDF Download, Praxis, Help, Management, New Approaches, playwork, Support, Training

A calm defence of adventure playgrounds in the midst of extremism...

plexity wrote 3 months ago:   … the extremists being the short, sighted politicians on Wandsworth council: telling lies and … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, managerialism|bureaucracy, Children, Youth, Society, managerialism, London, Unintended Consequences

SAVING THE HIGH STREET: WHY CAN’T 'WE ALL BE IN IT TOGETHER’ AND SORT IT OUT?3 comments

plexity wrote 3 months ago: Closed down shops, graffiti, tatty ‘To Let’ signs, a few sad-looking folk waiting for a bus. It’s th … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, managerialism|bureaucracy, Praxis, PublicRealm

DEAR OTHER PARENTS AT THE PARK: Please do not lift my daughters to the top of the ladder, especially after you've just heard me tell them I wasn't going to do it for them and encourage them to try it themselves1 comment

plexity wrote 4 months ago: ”I am not sitting here, 15 whole feet away from my kids, because I am too lazy to get up. I am sitti … more →

Tags: Praxis, complexity|management, children|communities, managerialism|bureaucracy, humour|wisdom?, elegancies, PublicRealm, children-related 'professions', Complexity

Calm is the lamp and insight is the light | THINKING ABOUT DESIGNING                         

plexity wrote 4 months ago: I’m  working my way through this: http://hackdesign.org/lesson/0/   (It’s free, you can … more →

Tags: Design, Élégance, Zen, Ways of Seeing, Praxis, helping people

Termframe1 comment

plexity wrote 4 months ago: Designed to remind you of timeframe, a termframe is my neologism; an attempt to point to something i … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, Sciences, Praxis

CRESS OR YEW? Absolutist Visionary Fatwas & the Temporality Of Doom

plexity wrote 4 months ago: If a blog isn’t an opportunity for the odd wee self-indulgence then what is? I just said this—the th … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, humour|wisdom?, PublicRealm, Complexity, Play, Systems, playwork, Society

Your Brain by the Numbers: Scientific American

plexity wrote 6 months ago: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-in-pictures-your-brain-by-the-numbers … more →

The Joy of Lex #1: poncy words out of the mouths of poltroons and flibbertigibbets...1 comment

plexity wrote 6 months ago: Man from a private litter nazi company, on the radio defending fining a pensioner £75 for dropping a … more →

Children and pets

plexity wrote 6 months ago: Competition time! Once I have managed to upload this video, ask me what use I am making of it in a t … more →

Tags: complexity|management, children|communities, Sciences, elegancies, Praxis

Learning is a verb, it isn’t a noun.1 comment

plexity wrote 6 months ago: This is the latest instalment in a ‘diablogue’ a dialogue between two minds (mine and Jo … more →

Tags: children|communities, Praxis, diablog - a dialogue within a blog, diablog with Joel Seath, Systems, Wisdom, Learning, Education


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