PlayEducation for underprivileged communities

Abstract

“All human beings are active seekers of knowledge and PLAY is an integral facet of this ongoing quest”- a quote by Doris Leanna Bergen.

from here I’d like to introduce my topic that started by engaging the act of play to learning environments and from here looking into many factors and conditions that help in this engaging method. Let alone, questioning the typologies and the factors of schools that I seek to improve.

When thinking about learning or education one usually imagines a school or a classroom, this is an unfortunate misguided judgment that learning just occurs in these environments. These traditional environments currently lack the capacity for free play and imagination to facilitate learning. The activity of playing can be a catalyst to a much richer and meaningful knowledge. This thesis asks whether imagination and play can be leveraged to design new learning spaces and also offer all children with different conditions or social backgrounds to benefit from learning and education through the act of PLAY.

So my thesis asks whether play can be leveraged to design new learning spaces and also offer all children with different conditions or social backgrounds to benefit from learning and education through the act of PLAY.

My thesis question is how can we apply in underprivileged communities informal learning strategies and look into design strategies to optimize learning effectiveness for future generation and underprivileged communities?