Froebel Trust Lecture 2023: Professor Tina Bruce on play and creativity

Play and Creativity with Professor Tina Bruce - The Froebel Trust Annual Lecture 2023

During this lecture, Professor Tina Bruce explores children's play and creativity - "Play is about wallowing in ideas, feelings and relationships...". She speaks about play "...creating possible, alternative, imagined worlds. These can lift children from real and literal situations to deeper kinds of imagining and creating ideas..."

She discusses the role of the adult in supporting and nurturing children's play and makes the case for why children need adults who can observe and extend their play:

"Adults need to be careful not to invade, overwhelm or extinguish the children’s possibilities for free flow play."

"Play helps adults realise what children already know, have been learning and what they can do, feel and understand."

The lecture was held in Cardiff, Wales on 5 Oct 2023 with an audience of educators working in early years settings and schools. Prof. Bruce is introduced by Gaynor Trimble (School Improvement Partner at South East Wales Education Achievement Service) and Dr Sacha Powell (CEO, Froebel Trust).