Playful learning sounds like sweetening the bitter. As if playing and learning are so different. Although we mainly play to learn. To try out things. To discover that what we see of the world around us is worth doing again. To practise social skills. To try is showing off works well. To try if being overly self confident is as effective as loyalty. If initiative is as rewarding as discipline.
The world we play in is the world we live in. When we are still young the playground is our entire world. And probably the playground is a miniature of society. Is the play of children in Japan different from the west? There is a story on an expat parent talking with a teacher. The parent is addressed for the behaviour of his child on the schoolyard. The kid happened to run all directions in the yard. When the parent said that all children were doing so, the point became clear. "Japanese children all run the same direction together. You child doesn't".
Near the expat flats of Roppongi Hills.
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