Playful Pedagogy toolkit
APiC designed a toolkit for Play Scotland to help teachers promote outdoor learning and participation.
Project
In July 2020, APiC worked with Play Scotland to write a guide to Playful Pedagogy for their website. The aim was to introduce practitioners to playful ways of effectively implementing Education Scotland’s Realising the Ambition and Curriculum for Excellence.
Approach
We reviewed the evidence on Play Pedagogy, examined Scottish Government and Education Scotland’s aims for primary education, and spoke with pioneering practitioners to provide case studies. We also wrote up a case study of a joint APiC and Play Scotland project (as part of the Place Standard Tool for Children development with Scottish Government) to investigate the village of Auchtertool with children in the local primary school.
Impact
The guide has been well received, and we are now working with Play Scotland on further ways to enhance the practice of Play Pedagogy in Scotland. More on that soon!