“Games and adventures” – this is how we refer to an extensive repertoire that has developed over the years – myriad ways of working with children in group contexts.
The neuroscientist, Howard Gardner, tells us that the human brain is the result of over 2 million years of evolutionary development and its size and sophistication is commensurate with the way we interact with the world which is more diverse and multifaceted than other animals that we consider “less intelligent”. The brain has evolved because of the growing number of uses we put it to or, to be more specific, styles of processing information to arrive at meaning.