Excited to have contributed to this publication. Thanks @icsei.bsky.social for the opportunity.

🚀 Launching the ICSEI Dialogic 2026! 🚀

This year’s edition is our largest and most multilingual ever, and is titled:

“Early Childhood Education and Care: Exploring the Potential for Promoting Children’s Lifelong Learning, Well‑Being, and Sense of Belonging.”

Read more: icsei.org/voices/

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing. @Guardian

Thanks @cpaterso.bsky.social :)

‘We Love Nature and Nature Loves Us’: Children’s Observations on their Relationship with the More-than-Human World - International Journal of Early Childhood Nature play is gaining momentum in primary schools. However, few studies have actively incorporated children’s voices. Even rarer are articles authored by the children themselves, as academics predomi...

"This article highlights the importance of listening to children to fully understand their lived experience and the true essence of nature play... co-authoring articles with children fosters high levels of engagement and ownership." Via @aharper1.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is a beautiful, insightful and powerful article.

Extremely excited to share this article. Co-authors include 6 year olds, @toniagray.bsky.social & @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
The children’s insights on nature and nature play are profound. You may like it @ahargreaves.bsky.social @srincongallardo.bsky.social @creativestar.bsky.social

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5 names for the Polar Bear:

🐻‍❄️ Nanook – Inuit for ‘an animal worthy of great respect’
🐻‍❄️ Ursus maritimus – Latin for ‘sea bear’
🐻‍❄️ Isbjørn – Norwegian for ‘ice bear’
🐻‍❄️ God’s dog – A name from the Sámi people
🐻‍❄️ Tornassuk – In Greenlandic, ‘the master of helping spirits’

#PolarBearDay

📸: Joe Bunni

“We can’t use 1950s vibes to fight 2025 vibes. They have social media and algorithms, we have collective responsibility.” – Ann Lopez #icsei2025

Feeling blessed to have spent 5 days at #ICSEI25 and to have had the opportunity to share my research. Thanks for your support @pasisahlberg.bsky.social You’re a true gem.

What a beautiful story.

Thanks Andy - a great read with poignant points.

Imagine a world where funding is not an educational narrative. The possibilities…

Fascinating. History is crucial knowledge. I would have thought 100ish year cycles. Eg. Spanish Flu 1920, COVID 2020; the Great Depression 1929, current cost of living crisis. I don’t want to go further!!! I wonder - are these cycles inevitable? Can they be disrupted?

Fascinating. History is crucial knowledge. I would have thought 100ish yr cycles. Eg Spanish Flu 1920, COVID 2020; the Great Depression 1929, Crisis of Living now. I don’t want to mention other things. Human-centric lens though. How can we disrupt these cycles? Are they inevitable?

Vale John Marsden - a literary and educational legend. Candlebark, which you established and led, is a pioneering school. Thank you amp.abc.net.au/article/1047...

Education Research in a Changing World #AARE2024

Session - what parents say about the role of play & risk in the early years of school.

Humbled to lead a 1.5 hr workshop with awesome participants.

Loved the surrounds of Macquarie University.

🤔 Still percolating, reflecting & pondering after my first #aare conference.
🙏🏼 Thank you @australianare.bsky.social for the depth & range of presentations, excellent.
📣 Amazing advocacy for early childhood. Ta.
🗣️Humbled to share my research on nature play (twice!) & SO grateful for the feedback.

📣 Applications for the 2025 Sydney Opera House Play Award now open! Don’t wait. This is an amazing opportunity. Let’s raise the profile of play in primary schools.

📚My PhD is taking me to wonderful places & connecting me with awesome people. My latest adventure - the AEE Conference in Estes Park Colorado.
🗣️ Fun chatting about nature play in my poster & workshop sessions. I was overwhelmed by the encouragement to publish. I will, I promise! #NaturePlayIsTheWay