Publications

Publications

Working papers

Please note, the years stated below are the years of actual publication, rather than when the working paper was first released.

WP 71Exploring Science Concepts in Everyday Interactions with Infant-toddlers at Home: Caregivers’ Raised Science Consciousness Through Fleer’s Conceptual PlayWorld (pdf)
Yu, S., Fleer, M. & Rai, P. (2026).
WP 70 Playful STEM Learning A Cultural-Historical Analysis of a Child’s Motive Orientation within a Conceptual PlayWorld. International Journal of Early Childhood, 1-24.(pdf)
Ramunno, O., Fleer, M., Rai, P., & Suryani, A. (2025).
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Girls imagineering: A cultural-historical study of preschool children’s first experiences of engineering education in play-based settings. (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2025). 
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Imaginating in preschools: A cultural-historical study of girls’ first experiences of STEM education in play-based settings. (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2025). 
WP 67 Young children’s mathematical problem solving and thinking in a playworld. Math Ed Res J 35, 23–44 (pdf)
Li, L., Disney, L. (2023).
WP 66 Mathematics teaching: A study of early childhood teachers’ pedagogical positioning in a playworld context (pdf)
Disney, L., & Li, L. (2022).
WP 65 Studying teacher professional development: how a Chinese kindergarten teacher brings play practices into the program. (pdf)
Li, L., Fleer, M., & Yang, N. (2021).
WP 64 Developing a pedagogy of play: toddlers’ conceptual learning in a PlayWorld. (pdf)
Li, L. (2020).
WP 63 Methodological Principles of Educational Experiment: Conceptual Playworld with Families for Children's Stem Learning in Their Home Setting (pdf)
Rai, P., & Fleer, M. (2023).
WP 62 New worlds of play-based learning (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2021).
WP 61 Reimagining maths learning - insights from a conceptual playworld project (pdf)
Simmons, K., & Fleer, M. (2023).
WP 60 A Cultural-Historical Study of Teacher Development: How Early Childhood Teachers Meet the Demands of a Theoretical Problem in STEM for Practice Change (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2023).
WP 59 Innovation in early childhood and primary education (pdf)
Fragkiadaki, G., Fleer, M., & Rai, P. (2021).
WP 58 Collective imagining: The early genesis and development of a sense of collectiveness during infancy. (pdf)
Fragkiadaki, G., Fleer, M., & Rai, P. (2021).
WP 57 Parent pedagogical positioning to create conditions for preschooler STEM learning using a Conceptual PlayWorld approach (pdf)
Nedovic, S., Fleer, M., & Rai, P. (2024, 2024/10/01/).
WP 56 Infants and toddlers in imaginary play situations: The genesis and conditions that support the development of imagination (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2024).
WP 55 Cultural-historical Digital Methodology in Early Childhood Settings (pdf)
Fleer, M., et al. (2024).
WP 54 A cultural-historical study of how educators create conditions for infant and toddler learning in science (pdf)
Fleer, M., March, S., & Suryani, A. (2024).
WP 53 Contributing to SDGs through Conceptual PlayWorlds: Changing the STEM story for children, families, and teachers (pdf)
Suryani, A., March, S., Fleer, M., Rai, P. (2024).
WP 52 Contradictions and roadblocks: a cultural- historical study of educators’ beliefs and practices in the teaching of science concepts to infants and toddlers (pdf)
Fleer, M., March, S., & Suryani, A. (2024).
WP 51 From objects to artefacts to props: The role of objects in infant-toddlers' play and imagination in Conceptual PlayWorlds in family settings (pdf)
Suxiang Y., Fleer, M. & Rai, P. (2024).
WP 50 Rising to the concrete: A cultural-historical study of concept development of infants and toddlers in imaginary situations (pdf)
Fleer, M. (2024).
WP 49 Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play (pdf)
Suryani. A., Fleer, M., 2024.
WP 48 An analysis of a child’s experiences in playing a gendered character during playworld (pdf)
Utami, A.D., Fleer, M. & Li, L., 2020.
WP 47 Shift in teachers’ pedagogical practices in play-based programme in Indonesia (pdf)
Utami, A.D., Fleer, M. & Li, L., 2020.
WP 46 The ‘Player’ role of the teacher in Playworld creates new conditions for children’s learning and development (pdf)
Utami, A.D., Fleer, M. & Li, L., 2022.
WP 45 Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education (pdf)
Wang, Y., Ma, Y., Li, L and Fleer, M., 2023.
WP 44 Creating Conditions for Chinese Kindergarten Teacher’s Professional Development in Play-based Setting. Early Years (pdf)
Wang, Y. Li, L, Fleer, M. and Ma, Y., 2023.
WP 43 Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life. Research in Science Education (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2023.
WP 42 Perezhivanie: An Investigation into Drama and Emotions as Children Enter a Conceptual PlayWorld (pdf)
Utami, A. D., Fleer, M., Li, L., 2023.
WP 41 A cultural-historical study of emotions in play: catharsis and perezhivanie in an institutional care setting (pdf)
Meng, X., Fleer, M., Li, L., Hammer, M., 2023.
WP 40 The role of imagination in science education in the early years under the conditions of a Conceptual PlayWorld (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2023.
WP 39 The hidden and invisible: supporting science learning in infants’-toddlers’ group settings (pdf)
Fragkiadaki, G., Fleer, M., & Rai, P., 2023.
WP 38 Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings (pdf)
Fleer, M., Rai, P., 2023.
WP 37 A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context (pdf)
Ma, Y., Fleer, M., Li, L., Wang, Y., 2023.
WP 36 Collective imaginary situation as a site of diagnostic assessment: A cultural-historical analysis of children’s emerging science motive orientations in a Conceptual PlayWorld (pdf)
Rai, P., Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., 2022.
WP 35 Collective play: the new conditions for children’s development in an institutional care setting (pdf)
Meng, X., Fleer, M., Li, L., & Hammer, M., 2021.
WP 34 A cultural-historical study of the development of emotion regulation through collective play in an institutional care setting in China (pdf)
Meng, X., Fleer, M., Li, L., & Hammer, M., 2022.
WP 33 Science concept formation during infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood: Developing a scientific motive over time (pdf)
Fragkiadaki G, Fleer M, Rai P., 2021.
WP 32 The role of props in promoting imagination during toddlerhood (pdf)
Yonzon, K. C., Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., & Rai, P., 2022.
WP 31 Balancing play and science learning - developing children's scientific learning in the classroom through imaginary play (pdf)
Fleer. M, 2022.
WP 30 Promoting Chinese children's agency in science learning: Conceptual PlayWorld as a new play practice (pdf)
Ma, Y., Wang, Y., Fleer, M., & Li, L., 2022.
WP 29 Balancing play and science learning: Developing children’s scientific learning in the classroom through imaginary play (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, 2021.
WP 28 The dialectical relation of real and digital Conceptual PlayWorlds in Family Day Care (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, Prabhat Rai & Glykeria Fragkiadaki, 2022.
WP 27 Digital games for spatial reasoning in the early years: Building the foundations for STEM learning (pdf)
Dang, H., Forwood, E., Peiris, S., Seeley, S., Rai, P., Fleer, M., & Li, J., 2020.
WP 26 A Cultural-historical Critique of How Engineering Knowledge is Constructed Through Research in Play-based Settings: What Counts as Evidence and What is Invisible? (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, 2021.
WP 25 The social and cultural genesis of collective imagination during infancy (pdf)
Fragkiadaki, G., Fleer, M., & Rai, P., 2021.
WP 24 How children create their own conditions for learning concepts in child-initiated play: When concepts act in service of children’s play (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, 2021.
WP 23 An educational experiment into how to bring discipline concepts into play: How a theoretical problem acts as a source of teacher development (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, 2021.
WP 22 Increasing girls’ STEM engagement in early childhood: Conditions created by the Conceptual PlayWorld model (pdf)
Stephenson, T., Fleer, M., & Fragkiadaki, G., 2021.
WP 21 The genesis of design: learning about design, learning through design to learning design in play (pdf)
Marilyn Fleer, 2021.
WP 20 Imagination as a source of professional practice change: A cultural-historical study of the unique characteristics of early childhood teacher professional development (pdf)
Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., & Rai, P., 2021.
WP 19 The place of theoretical thinking in professional development: Bringing science concepts into play practice (pdf)
Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., & Rai, P., 2021.
WP 18 Early Childhood Science Education from 0 to 6: A Literature Review (pdf)
O’Connor, G., Fragkiadaki, G., Fleer, M., & Rai, P., 2021.
WP 17 Theorising Digital Tools: Mutual Constitution of the Person and Digital in a Conceptual PlayWorld (pdf)
Rai, P., Fleer, M. & Fragkiadaki, G., 2021.
WP 16 Playworlds as an evidence-based model of practice for the intentional teaching of executive functions. (pdf)
Fleer, M., Walker, S., White, A., Veresov, N. & Duhn, I., 2020.
WP 15 Digitally animated play practices: New conditions for children’s development in play-based setting (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2018.
WP 14 The Legacy of Gonzalez Rey’s Concept of Subjectivity Continues to Inform and Inspire: A Study of Imagination in STEM and Imagination in Play (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2020.
WP 13 Methodological Challenges of Studying Children in a Living Laboratory: Case example of Conceptual PlayLab (pdf)
Fleer M., Fragkiadaki G., Rai P., 2020.
WP 12 Engineering PlayWorld – supporting children to collectively design, imagine and think using engineering concepts (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2020.
WP 11 How Conceptual PlayWorlds in preschool settings create new conditions for children’s development during group time (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2021.
WP 10 Conceptual PlayWorlds as a pedagogical intervention: Supporting the learning and development of the preschool child in play-based setting (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2019.
WP 09 An ecology of Playworlds: A study into the reach of Lindqvist’s legacy in testing times (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2019
WP 08 STEM begins in infancy: Conceptual PlayWorlds to support new practices for professionals and families (pdf)
Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G., & Rai, P., 2020
WP 07 Studying the relations between motives and motivation – How young children develop a motive orientation for collective engineering play (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2020
WP 06 Digital pop-ups: Studying digital pop-ups and theorising digital pop-up pedagogies for preschools (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2020
WP 05 Future imaginings of being and becoming an engineer: Microassaults, microinsults and microinvalidations when girls dare to engineer in preschool (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2019
WP 04 Digitally amplified practices: Beyond binaries and towards a profile of multiple digital coadjuvants (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2019
WP 03 Examining the psychological content of digital play through Hedegaard’s model of child development (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2018
WP 02 Conceptual Playworlds: Foregrounding imagination and creativity as foundational for children’s learning (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2018
WP 01 Scientific playworlds: A model of teaching science in play-based settings (pdf)
Fleer, M., 2017