- Playful Learning for Life

We do basic research in practice to strengthen social inclusion of children on the spectrum. The project takes an implementation-based approach to developing a new pedagogical method for playful social learning. Autistic children co-develop innovative social learning activities and strategies for pedagogical documentation together with teachers/pedagogues, researchers, and parents.

CollaboLearn is a collaboration between Langagerskolen, a large public school that specializes in autism, and researchers at the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University. The project combines recent insights into play, learning and pedagogical documentation with a new theoretical understanding of autistic sociality. Thus, the project blazes a new trail for using basic research to find innovative solutions to strengthen the social inclusion of all citizens in our welfare society.

In CollaboLearn, we find that a strong and stable partnership between practitioners and researchers is invaluable in developing sustainable social entrepreneurship anchored in the everyday lives of autistic children and their adults.

The project is supported by THE VELUX FOUNDATION. We have previously been awarded funding for our work in this project from TrygFonden, The Innovation Foundation, Sofiefonden, PLAYTrack seed-funding and bricks from the LEGO Foundation.