play

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:37:11 -0800 (PST)

Karen-- The spirit of your comment about teaching kids and college
students and the comments about play hang together well for me. In
my work play is a central topic-- I "have to" go to the 5thDimension
four afternoons a week or a wizard starts nagging me. I think its
invaluable to experience play both as observer and participant-constitutor.
There are lots of ways that playing with the children using varieties
of intellectually stimulating objects helps me both theorize and appreciate
the processes involved.

I teach Vivian Paley as a methodologist.
mike
cole