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Conceptual PlayLab

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 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

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Media releases

10 June 2020
Play-based learning empowers young girls to become scientists, engineers
Monash University News

02 September 2019
Top honour for Monash researcher dedicated to improving early childhood education
Monash University News

19 March 2019
Science and engineering child's play, but vital for Australia's future
Monash University News