A brief overview of each chapter can be found on this page. Click through to read more details!
Chapter 1: An invitation to play
- Our introductions as teachers and researchers
- On the “Goldilocks tone” (between academic and informal)
- Chapter outlines
Chapter 2: Constraints and play in Education
- On finding the “freedom to play”
- Why play?
- STEP 1: Know your constraints
- STEP 2: Understand the “ways to play”
- STEP 3: Build your playground(s)
- STEP 4: Let students play
- STEP 5: Share your playgrounds
Chapter 3: What is ludic language pedagogy?
- The Ludic
- The Language
- The Pedagogy
- Diversify more → Be more inclusive → Matter more
Chapter 4: Improve your ludic literacy
- Ludic objects vs the ludic in you
- Play with ludic objects
- Learn about what you did
- Apply it in your own context
- Yearn for more yeeted objects and practices!