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Category: Primary (5-11)

Innovative ways to use technology to support parent-child interaction

3 December 2024

In this PEDAL Conference 2024 recording, Rob Hughes presents Tandem - a ground-breaking app which uses AI to support active engagement between parents and children, and Eloise Stevens and Nesta's Lauren Liotti and Zhen Rao talk about PEDAL’s Playtime with Books programme.

What is a common elements approach?

27 November 2024

This short animation explains what a common elements approach is, and why PEDAL are using it in our research.

A playful retrospective on the power of play for young children and children living in contexts of conflict and crisis

27 November 2024

In this PEDAL Conference 2024 keynote, Paul Frisoli playfully reflects on the last 5 years of The LEGO Foundation funding in humanitarian settings.

The Oxford Brain Story: Embedding an understanding of the importance of the early years

22 October 2024

In this PEDAL Conference 2024 keynote, Louise Dalton presents her programme of work entitled the Oxford Brain Story.

Infographic on Children’s Executive Functions

9 October 2024

This infographic on executive functions can be shared with ECD practitioners, teachers, parents, caregivers, health professionals, and anyone else interested in children’s cognitive development.

Learning through play in Global Majority countries: Reflections from the PEDAL Centre on understanding and adapting the concept in four different contexts

9 September 2024

This paper in the International Journal of Play interrogates the concept of learning through play in different global contexts.

Staying self-regulated in the classroom: The role of children’s executive functions and situational factors

24 July 2024

We wanted to explore how an individual child's self-regulation might vary between different activities.

Centring children’s lived experiences in understanding the importance of play in hospitals

8 July 2024

We wanted to understand what playing in hospital is like from the perspectives and experiences of young children themselves.

A playful, evidence-informed approach to maths education

30 May 2024

How PEDAL research can help a government committed to improving maths outcomes to think more creatively about how to achieve this goal.

Listening to children with empathy – the ethical case

30 May 2024

In this piece, Soizic le Courtois argues that advice given to parents should draw on scientific evidence about children's subjective wellbeing, children's perspectives and the contribution of any practice to children's development and outcomes. We should also be attuned to our empathetic responses to children, which can give us clues about the "right" thing to do.

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