PEDAL Centre
| Created: | 2016-01-26 14:51 |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Education |
| Editors' group: | SMS editors for the Faculty of Education |
| Description: | PEDAL: Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning
Sponsored by the Lego Foundation The guiding focus of the centre’s work is to develop substantial and compelling research concerned with the role of play and playfulness in young children’s learning and development, and the potential of play-based approaches within educational contexts. The kinds of skills and accomplishments that are widely recognised as being vital components of 21st century educational provision, including critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal abilities, emotional resilience and creativity, have all been linked theoretically and empirically to playfulness and playful learning. Nevertheless, the play opportunities for children living in modern urban environments (now the majority of children world-wide) are increasingly curtailed, both within their homes and communities and within their schooling. At the same time, play remains a relatively under-researched area within developmental science, with many fundamental questions still unanswered. It is the aim of the PEDAL research centre to contribute to the process of addressing these questions, and to work with educators and policy makers to inform practice and policy in relation to this evidence. |
| Website: | http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/pedal/ |
Media items
This collection contains 25 media items.
Media items
Bringing Self - Regulated Learning to Classrooms through Research Practice Partnerships
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Prof Nancy Perry from The University of British Columbia presents the role of research-practice partnerships in bringing self-regulated learning to classrooms.
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 31 Oct 2016
Catching Brainwaves as we Speak: The Prediction of Physiology for Medicine and More
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Talk by Dr Tristan Bekinschtein, University of Cambridge, on the future of brain imaging in personalised medicine.
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 9 Oct 2017
David Whitebread - Last Lecture
328 views
As one of the leading international proponents of play as part of education and learning, David Whitebread's fascinating career led up to the creation of the PEDAL research centre...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Thu 21 Dec 2017
Harnessing New Technology to Better Understand the Family Language Environment
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Dr Elian Fink talks about collaborational project Baby Talk, where they used a light-weight wearable pedometer to record infant-caregiver interactions.
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Wed 4 Oct 2017
Integrating Nutrition, Psychology and Neuroscience to Measure Infant Development in the UK & Gambia
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Talk by Dr Sarah Lloyd Fox, Birkbeck College, on infant brain imaging in The Gambia
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 9 Oct 2017
Intra - and Inter - Individual Diversity in Social Cognition: From Individual Neural Dynamics to Interactional...
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Talk by Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, on the use of two-person hyperscanning in social neuroscience research, with particular applications to the study of autism spectrum...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 9 Oct 2017
Pedagogy of Play Workshop
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Watch Ben Mardell from Harvard University's Project Zero, and Camilla Uhre Fog from the International School of Billund talk about their Pedagogy of Play in a teacher workshop.
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Wed 9 Aug 2017
PEDAL Research Seminar | Toddlers Think for Themselves!
958 views
Social learning has been a large focus of early developmental psychology for the past three decades. While it reveals how culture is transmitted to young children, questions about...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 11 Mar 2019
PEDAL Research Seminar | Unleashing the Power of Science in Early Childhood | Daryl Greenfield, University of Miami
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Professor Greenfield is a Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics at the University of Miami. His work is positioned at the interface of research, policy and practice at the...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Wed 11 Jul 2018
PEDAL Seminar | A Prescription for Play: Why play fosters social and cognitive development
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Join PEDAL for a public lecture by world-renowned psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, evaluating the evidence for the importance of free...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Wed 26 Sep 2018
PEDAL | BBC Breakfast report on playful writing
945 views
BBC Breakfast report on playful writing
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Tue 7 Mar 2017
Play at the Extremes
561 views
Play at the Extremes - A Panel Discussion for Parents, Teachers & Carers
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Thu 1 Nov 2018
Play In Green Spaces
1,309 views
Adults instinctively feel that playing outside is good for children, but what is actually known about the benefits of play in green spaces?
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Thu 6 May 2021
Play, self-regulation and early childhood - What does research say?
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Play, self-regulation and early childhood education: what does research say? A lecture by Prof Clancy Blair of NYU Steinhardt & Prof Kathy Sylva of University of Oxford
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 6 Feb 2017
Play: A window into children's social worlds - Part2
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Public lecture on 11th September with this second part given by Prof. Anthony Pellegrini
For more information please visit www.educ.cam.ac.uk/pedal/
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Fri 29 Sep 2017
Pretence and Creativity during Childhood and Beyond
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This joint Psychology & Education and PEDAL seminar by Dr Julie Kirkham will examine pretend play and creativity in the context of early and
middle childhood
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 6 Feb 2017
Seminar: Play and Learning in Finnish Education Policy and Practice
215 views
Play is a serious matter for young children across all cultures. This is evidenced by the passionate, intensive and energetic engagement many children invest in this activity....
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Tue 26 Jan 2016
Seminar: Self Regulation - Foundation skills for childrens healthy development
214 views
Part of the PEDal Seminar series this video shows the recording of the recent seminar hosted by PEDaL and the Psychology & Education research group at the Faculty of Education,...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Tue 6 Jun 2017
Shaping Social Play Behavior in Interactive Playgrounds
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In this talk, Dr Moreno presents the work that they have carried out in the context of analyzing and shaping children’s play behavior in interactive playgrounds,...
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Wed 4 Oct 2017
Synchrony Through Gaze: Mapping the Neural Social Network of Infants
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Dr Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge and Nanyang Technological University, speaks about the social dynamics of adult-infant neural synchrony.
Collection: PEDAL Centre
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 9 Oct 2017