Once Upon a Time There was Truth: Why We need Fairy Tales in Trouble Times
Date: Tuesday July 14 at 9am PDT (US) Guest Speaker: Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University...
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Discussion 2 on Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline
Time: 9:30AM–11:00AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7:00) on Monday, June 29, 2026 Reading: Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Cultural Psychology: A Once and...
Read moreDetailsDiscussion 1 on Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline
Time: 9:30AM–11:00AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7:00) on Monday, June 1, 2026 Reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4, with a focus on...
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The Imperative of Play: Creating What Doesn’t Yet Exist with Carrie Lobman
Saturday, June 20 | 11:30 AM–2:00 PM Eastern US TimeOnline Workshop What do we do when the ways we’ve learned...
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Interesting TED TALK & whole day event on play
Dr. Anna Rainio of the University of Helsinki will present on playworlds and the power of imagination on May 14,...
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The theory and practice of developing the psychological function of imagination
Date: Friday June 26 at 2am PDT USA Guest Speakers: Professor Anne Clerc-Georgy, Chair, Early Childhood Education, HEP, Lausanne, Switzerland Emeritus...
Read moreDetailsTransitioning from Playing with Shapes to Metaphoric and Symbolic Representation
Date: Tuesday May 12, 2026 at 9am PDT (USA) Guest Speaker: Francine Smolucha Summary: The previous session explored how object substitution play with toddlers could...
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Climate crisis, learning, and epistemic plurality
In recent years, scholars, Indigenous knowledge holders, and social movements have increasingly called for the decolonization of climate change discourses,...
Read moreDetailsDiscussion on A Reflection on CHAT’s History and Direction
Time: 9:30AM-11:00AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7:00) on Monday, May 4, 2026 Speaker: Michael Cole, University of California San Diego Discussion leader: Shaffiq...
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Breaking through the Screen: From Virtual World-Building to Embodied Play
UC Links is thrilled to host Eddie Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University) and Cecilia Rubino (Eugene Lang College, The New...
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Date: Tuesday April 14, 2026 at 9am PDT Guest Speaker: Francine Smolucha Summary: In this session, we will consider object substitution play as an activity...
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Conversation with Silvia Grinberg and Eliana Bussi
En esta charla con Silvia Grinberg, Eliana Bussi y Alfredo Jornet, exploramos enfoques metodológicos para la investigación educativa basados en...
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