Lessons from the Play Observatory: re-imagining learning through film-making and transludic practices in children’s pandemic play
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Date
2023-03-18
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Taylor and Francis Group
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(c) 2023 The Author/s
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CC BY 4.0
Abstract
This article focuses on children’s play during the pandemic and how some young people responded with hybrid, playful media-making. The Play Observatory was an ESRC-funded project led by UCL and the University of Sheffield, inviting children to make contributions to a national collection of stories, texts and artefacts linked with their play during lockdown. The cultural material generated by children is an important post-pandemic legacy that allows us to argue for informal film-making as a legitimate literacy practice. Insights gained from children’s creative film and animation work inspire new approaches to learning with media described as transludic, in which the characteristics of playful and improvised media production processes are given time and space to unfold.
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Play, creative digital media, film-making, animation, new literacies
Citation
Cannon M, Potter J, Olusoga Y, Cowan K. (2023). Lessons from the Play Observatory: re-imagining learning through film-making and transludic practices in children’s pandemic play. Education 3-13. 52. 1. (pp. 61-77).