Category: Social and Emotional Development
U: Unconventional ideas: What is creativity and how can it be nurtured?
5 July 2022
Why are play researchers interested in creativity?
V: Videos of family play moments support child development
5 July 2022
Are videos of play a helpful way for families to learn about and respond to their children's behaviour?
X: X-SEL in life: Supporting social and emotional learning in early childhood
5 July 2022
How can we support children with their social and emotional learning?
Y: You and me: Parent child playfulness
5 July 2022
What are some of the everyday ways parents can spend playful time with their children while at home?
Play and infant interactions with caregivers
5 July 2022
What are the benefits of quality playful interactions with your infant?
Play and Pretence
5 July 2022
What is pretend play and how does it link to a child’s emotional development?
Play and Self-regulation
5 July 2022
Self-regulation helps a child guide their thoughts, emotions and behaviours to accomplish a goal – how does play support this important area of development?
Play, Self-regulation, Executive Function and the Classroom Context
5 July 2022
How and why do playful approaches to teaching support the development of self-regulation?
David Whitebread Memorial Lecture 2022: Theory and Research on Self-Regulated Learning Meet Real Life in Classrooms
15 June 2022
PEDAL and the Whitebread family come together annually for the David Whitebread Memorial Lecture to celebrate the memory of Dr David Whitebread, PEDAL’s founder and a pioneer in early childhood development research. This is a recording of the inaugural David Whitebread Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Nancy Perry from the University of British Columbia in […]
Power of Play: Evidence on Playful Early Learning in Bangladesh and BRAC’s PlayBook Launch
6 December 2021
Early childhood is a critical time in a child’s development and life. When play is integrated into how we care for and educate young children, it promotes their development and helps them grow into adaptable, resilient, socially and emotionally literate adults who can navigate the world and overcome the adversities of poverty, crisis and conflict […]