by Saliha | Jan 11, 2022 | Play
The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life is the open-ended dialogue. Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person...
by Saliha | Sep 9, 2021 | Creative Process, Inclusion, Making Up Life, Play
I recently co-hosted a session with my colleague Jerry Gale titled “Training for Relational Engagement: Playing with Frames.” At the end of the session, one of the participants stated, “I’m wondering how play and social justice are...
by Saliha | Mar 15, 2021 | Creative Process, Making Up Life, Play, Reflections
You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where...
by Saliha | Oct 30, 2020 | Play, Reflections, Research
in play, things lose their determining force- Vygotsky, 1978, p....
by Saliha | Sep 30, 2020 | Play, Reflections
In play a child spontaneously makes use of his ability to separate meaningfrom an object without knowing he is doing it, just as he does not know heis speaking in prose but talks without paying attention to the words.(Vygotsky, 1978, p....
by Saliha | Sep 2, 2019 | Play
Playfulness: Proyer’s (2015) OLIW: other-directed, lighthearted, intellectual, whimsical Proyer’s new structural model of playfulness consists of four facets: Other-directed (O) enjoying to play with others; using ones playfulness to make social relations...