Special Issue on Nordic Perspectives on Play and Playful Approaches to Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning

Abstract

There has been a flourishing of interest in recent years in the positive contribution of play and playfulness to the everyday lives of children and young people, as well as to their life at school and as students. This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Pedagogy & Critique on Nordic perspectives on play and playful approaches to pedagogy, teaching and learning will insist on looking at the multifaceted nature of play and playfulness, at the fact that play and playfulness come in a variety of shapes and forms and insist that we take an interest in all this variety. The multifacetedness of play and playfulness draws our attention to the details, to the empirical evidence, to the diversity of theoretical approaches to play and, above all, it allows us to demonstrate the importance of never stopping talking about play and playfulness – now or in the future.