The Play Talk Podcast

The Play Talk Podcast

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Welcome to the play talk podcast – Max and Sarah talk about play for children and young people, and sometimes adults too.

Sarah Burton and Max Alexander


    • Oct 3, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 35m AVG DURATION
    • 3 EPISODES
    • 1 SEASONS


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    The first chat – No Ball Games

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 42:40


    You've made it to our third podcast – so time to share our first conversation - we chat about our reaction to the film No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – shot with children across in the UK in Wales in 2019 (pre-Covid). Rides in shopping trolleys, farting, working out what working class means, I spy, and British Bulldogs. No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – article and link to film on youtube https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/08/the-games-children-play-why-we-let-kids-take-over-our-film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLn83syQmU

    Play, plastics, and things that are in the world

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 34:01


    Max and Sarah chat about plastics in play environments, sustainability, aesthetics, values and how we make sense of the world with deviations into gun and superhero play and a dip into gender. We talk about a microblog by the commonworlds collective: "How does intensifying plastics' presence in the classroom invite children to practice curiosity and disrupt indifference?" which you can access here: http://commonworlds.net/how-does-intensifying-plastics-presence-in-the-classroom-invite-children-to-practice-curiosity-and-disrupt-indifference/

    Switch or Stick?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2022 28:34


    No, not a card game, but us chatting about the possibilities of play objects from light switches to sticks. Natural or plastic, or telephones in the trees…

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