Research Reviews

The role of play in education is a multifaceted narrative often overlooked in traditional educational settings, which emphasize academic rigor over experiential learning. However, a closer examination reveals a more nuanced reality: students and teachers, despite the constraints of formal education, find ways to integrate play into their learning journeys, curriculum, and pedagogy. This research […]

By Kyle Arlington Play is messy and complicated. It does more than evoke feelings of joy and extends beyond simple opposite-of-work conceptions. Play can be embodied and contextual, frequently crossing cultural and (inter)generational boundaries. It can exist within the limits and goals we impose, or it can seep out of the containers we use to […]

By Catherine Cheng Stahl Online play spaces have fascinated researchers since the beginnings of the Internet. The online world—with its lowered barriers to participation, symbolic and cultural resources, and tools for multimodal expression and self-fashioning (Burton, 2019; Kligler-Vilenchik & Literat, 2020)—houses a wide array of figured worlds (Holland et al., 2001) that are the intellectual […]