Author: Sabilah Eboo Alwani

Sabilah Eboo Alwani

Sabilah Eboo Alwani

Sabilah is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Having held senior roles in education technology and publishing, her research now focuses on early childhood learning and development, and the effect of parent engagement on childhood during the Covid-19 crisis. She is particularly interested in exploring how parent–child play and healthy development are affected by the mediator of parental resilience. Sabilah’s work is associated with Cambridge’s REAL and PEDAL research centres. She also spearheads a team of 12 international scholars on the Post-Pandemic Play initiative, for which she holds a grant from BAICE. She is an associate director of the COVGEN Alliance, and a designated Google research innovator. She completed her MPhil in education and international development at Cambridge, and holds dual BAs from Columbia University in the USA.

The Global Symposium on Post-Pandemic Play: A response by education researchers to the need for solution-focused theory and practice on post-Covid learning, and a new network for partnerships

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Combatting a poverty of play: revisiting the global landscape of post-pandemic play and learning

Famed developmental psychologist and English paediatrician Donald Winnicott said, "there is, for many, a poverty of play” (Playing and Reality, 1971). Despite play’s status in developmental literature as being key to both learning and wellbeing, Winnicott’s observation has come to characterise the landscape of childhood in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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