Understanding Play
Our first sessions on understanding play completely shifted my perspective on what happens inside a primary classroom . Defining "play" has always felt abstract but learning Maria Montessori’s concept that "Play is child’s work" and Jean Piaget's view that "Play is the work of children" grounded it perfectly for me . It made me realize that play isn't just a reward or "free time" given after real learning is done, it is the learning. During our think pair share activity, I shared a childhood memory with my partner about climbing trees and building makeshift houses with blankets . That play was entirely intrinsically motivated and process oriented and we didn't care about an end-product, but we just loved the doing . However, looking at our current Bhutanese educational landscape, I felt a deep sense of retrospective worry during our slide discussion on modern classrooms . In Bhu...