Review of Berti, F. & Seitz, S. (2025). The Primary School as a Playful Space. Theories and Practices in an International Perspective.

Anne Clerc-Georgy

doi:10.33178/scenario.19.2.8

Authors

Anne Clerc-Georgy HEP Vaud

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.19.2.8

Keywords:

Play, Primary school, playfull learning

Abstract

This volume, edited by Francesca Berti and Simone Seitz, offers an in-depth reflection on the role of play in primary school from an international perspective, drawing primarily on Italian, German, and Scottish contexts. Starting from the observation that play is widely recognised as a mode of learning in early childhood education, yet remains comparatively underexplored at the primary level, the contributions gathered in this volume aim to address both a theoretical and an empirical gap in educational research.

Author Biography

Anne Clerc-Georgy, HEP Vaud

Anne Clerc-Georgy is a full professor at the University of Teacher Education of Lausanne.

Leader of GIRAF group (Group about Intervention & Research on Fundamental Learning), she conducts research on teaching these learning as founders of pupil’s school success. She is working on a didactic of Fundamental learning (imaginary play, imagination, proto-didactic knowledge, the process of making learning subject-based, ability to change point of view on an object, participatory structures).

She is head of the Lausanne lesson study laboratory (3LS) and conducts research on teacher professional development and training processes.

References

Berti, F. & Seitz, S. (2025). The Primary School as a Playful Space. Theories and Practices in an International Perspective. Bozen : Bozen-Bolzano University Press vii. - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-340318 - DOI: 10.25656/01:34031; 10.13124/9788860462053