We have had some quite amazing breakout speakers at past National Play, Playing and Playwork Conferences, and now is your chance to join that illustrious list!
We are looking for people to present theoretical, practical hands-on, or mixed breakout sessions on the theme of play, playing and Playwork in Melbourne next March.
Whether you are from the ECE sector, OSHC, schools, parks and pl;aygrounds, or any other play-related field, we would like to hear from you. Head over to this link and fill in the form .. chop chop!
Breakout Submission Form
Full T&Cs can be found here.
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Looking forward to hearing from you.
Tour 25 on the road - Marc Armitage
Marc Armitage is a consultant, researcher and writer in play, playing and playwork. He has been a profesional Playworker for a looooong time and hass been freelance since 1989.
He regularly travels the world speaking to groups of professionals from a broad spectrum of work sectors in the children and young peoples workforce including playworkers, early educators, primary and secondary school teachers, out-of-school people, parks and playground designers, politicians, policy makers and many others.
He also spends a lot of time talking with children. With. That's the key word.
“Play is a thing by itself. The play-concept as such is of a higher order than is seriousness. For seriousness seeks to exclude play, whereas play can very well include seriousness.”
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
If you can think of others that you feel I should be following please let me know.
