We explore imaginative and creative pedagogies to reconceptualise play as mode for learning and thriving in the world.
Who we are
- Linda Knight (Lead)
- Thembi Mason (Lead)
- Aleksandra Acker
- Elise Hunkin
- Amanda Telford
- Toni Hilland
- Melanie Nash
- Jason Wong
- Yoshi Budd
- Kath Glasswell
- Grant Cooper
- Rebecca Seah
- Allison Byth
- Carl Ridgeway
- Rucelle Hughes
What we do
The Play-full pedagogies bubble aims to provide a space for learning, teaching and research that enables imagination and creativity to flourish. Its focus is on exploring (new) pedagogies that incorporate and reconceptualise learning through play, story-telling, problem-solving, sharing, experimenting, inventing, trialling, collaborating, questioning, performing, tinkering, creating, testing, documenting, teaching, and making, where learners take an active role in their own learning in a supportive, yet often challenging way.
These hands-on experiences “…combine[s] disciplines [and technologies] in ways that enhance the learning process for diverse [student] populations and opens the doors to unforeseen career paths” (Martinez & Stager, 2013, p. 3). We must continue to develop our skills, knowledge and understanding of our increasingly complex world and critically analyse and creatively respond to the unknown. Learning through play-full pedagogies develops our flexibility of thinking to thrive in the world in which we will live.
Martinez, S. L., & Stager, G. (2013). Invent to learn. Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. Torrance, Canada: Constructing Modern Knowledge.
Key projects
- RMIT PoPLab Reading Group
- 2019: Mapping scientific concepts through nature play in early childhood education: Achieving excellence in STEM through evidence-based pedagogies. $88,725 QLD Department of Education Horizon Research grant scheme Linda Knight – QUT Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles – SCU Lexi Lasczik – SCU Karen Malone – Swinburne Uni
- 2018: Mapping the city: developing children’s citizenship through creative practice $10,000 QUT Transdisciplinary Seed Grant Linda Knight – QUT Carol Brown – Uni of Auckland Clare Battersby – Independent artist Mabingo Alfdaniels – Uni of Auckland
Read more about our work
- Linda Knight: https://lindaknight.org/
- Mason, T., & de la Harpe, B. (2020). The state of play of Associate Deans, learning and teaching, in Australian universities, 30 years on. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(3), 532-545.
- Mason, T. (2017). “Stars”,“Rising Stars”,“Copers” and “Strugglers”: exploring the strategic leadership of the Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, across the Creative Arts in Australian universities (Doctoral dissertation, RMIT University).
- Students as Partners: https://sites.rmit.edu.au/studentsaspartners/
