In this TED Talk, Dr. Anna Rainio from the University of Helsinki explores playworlds and the power of imagination in children’s learning and development. Playworlds are a form of adult-child joint play in which participants create and inhabit imaginary worlds together. Dr. Rainio discusses how shared imagining and playing create opportunities for radical inclusion, diversity of ways of being and doing, in classrooms (Ferholt & Rainio, 2016)
To learn more, explore Anna Rainio’s research and the University of Helsinki’s work on adult-child joint imaginative playworlds.