Children's interests are an important basis for creating an early childhood curriculum. However, opportunities to build a curriculum responsive to children's interests may often be missed if busy teachers simply add new resources to activities. This article draws on the notion of "real questions" as a way to interpret children's…

Play-based learning is of growing interest in many English-medium primary schools throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. I share my insights from researching play as learning, and supporting teachers with curriculum design and pedagogy in play-based contexts. Although play is a slippery concept and its value often underestimated, the evidence of the…

Children's interests are a common foundation for early childhood curricula. Yet, little research is available about the fundamental nature of children's interests and analytical ways to recognize and engage with these. Early work on children's interests adopted a psychological perspective and associated interests with activity choices. Recent work…