On Meeting in Shared Playful Spaces:learning to play together in social education and teacher education

The backsTage design P1 B ased on my PhD project Udvikling af andenordensdidaktisk praksis i laereruddannelsens PlayLabs (Duedahl, 2024), in this article I will describe how, in collaboration with educators teaching Danish on the teacher education programmes, I have developed the 'backstage' design.The design supports teacher educators explicitly explaining their teaching practices in a dialogue with the students.The design invites the students backstage and gives them access to the educator's didactic reflections and reasons.In the dialogue, the students gain experience with thinking and talking like a teacher, which, from the point of view of preparing them for their future professional roles, develops their ability to plan, execute and evaluate teaching practices in schools in a reasoned manner.Part of the object of teacher education programmes is to prepare the students for their own role as teachers.It is well known that teachers often teach on the basis of their own experience and the way they were taught themselves (e.g.