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Lego-funded research centre launches new play hub

Early years practitioners will be able to access current research on play thanks to a new online hub.

The Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University has launched the new PEDAL Hub, which will make play research, policy and practice from across the world available to teachers, non-governmental organisations, parents and carers, researchers, policy makers and play advocates.

As well as containing play research articles, reports, policy documents and practical tips and resources, PEDAL Hub will also feature short summaries of current play research written by experts called ‘Play Pieces’, making findings accessible to a non-academic audience.

The PEDAL Centre was founded in 2015 to address a global gap in researching the role of play in children's education, development and learning, with the aim of ensuring play is more widely understood by those involved in children’s care and education.

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