Understanding Play: What it actually means
I never realized that a single thread pulled from my school belt could hold the weight of so much learning until I sat down for our first session of EAS409: Understanding Play in Early Childhood Education . The session wasn't just a lecture but included several activities which we tend to ignore but actually shapes who we are. The most profound moment for me came during the “Storytelling” strategy with my left-shoulder partner . As we were asked to recollect a special play memory, I found myself back in my primary school days, playing “chungki” with my friends. We would spend our free time between classes and after school hours hunting for the perfect, fresh leaves to bundle together. To tie them, we would surreptitiously pull threads from our own belts , carefully unravelling them to create our bundles. By the end of the year, our belts were literally falling apart, and we would get scolded by our families for the "damage," but in those moments, the scolding didn...