Week Seven - Play and the older child
Most often when we talk about play our minds and approaches are drawn, almost automatically, to the small children. However, it is important to remember that the UNCRC tells us that children are childre all the way to their 18th birthday and so our work in play has to support the older child too.
Week Seven
Week Seven
Week 7
Abimbola Nwozuru: Play and the older child
David Bainbridge: Teenagers: A Natural History
Fey Cole: Play and the older child
Abimbola worked in membership based organizations. She is an Administrator, Project Coordinator and also a Social Entrepreneur. She specializes in designing community development projects, works with children to promote SDG causes. She is a CSR Project implementer for organisations, designs family community projects. Advocate of Play for children and adults, paygrounds and play spaces. She is the Coordinator of IPA Nigeria.
David Bainbridge is a reproductive biologist, vet and science author, and has been the University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist at Cambridge since 2003. He is also fellow and Admissions Tutor at St Catharine’s College. After degrees in zoology and veterinary medicine at Cambridge, he researched into pregnancy biology at the Institute of Zoology, Royal Veterinary College and Cornell, Sydney and Oxford Universities.
Fey works as an FE/HE Early Years Lecturer in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Training as a Nursery Nurse in London twenty years ago, she has continued to work with children in a variety of roles and brings her background of playwork into the post-sixteen classroom. Her role sees her work on a range of international exchange projects and she has a keen interest in intergenerational learning, researching how play across communities can support individuals emotional health and enhance curriculums.