ABOUT ME
I’m Laura Canals. Teacher, graduated in Pedagogy and specialized in sexual education. I am responsible for creating and developing In Ludus games and training.
IN LUDUS
HI, I'M LAURA!
And I am responsible for creating and developing In Ludus games and training. I am a curious person who tries again and again. I like to learn and I am especially interested in training. My curls are my trademark and for a couple of years my gray hairs have been showing off in all their glory.
I want to help you, if you want to, of course, in this wonderful challenge of accompanying the growth of children and adolescents starting from Comprehensive Sexual Education through my educational games and a playful training proposal for professionals and families.
If you are interested in this… sit down and I will continue to tell you about it…
A BIT OF HISTORY
Start
For 6 years, starting in 2009, I started teaching sex education workshops in an elementary school in the city of Buenos Aires. I was the director and I worked on it based on the experiences of the children themselves and every year I added topics based on the emerging issues that I had identified. It was not easy for the teachers to address these topics and they found the challenge difficult.
Discovery
At that moment I realized that I needed resources, interesting activities that would help me encourage boys and girls to talk about sexuality. When I started, there were almost no books and much less games.
At that time, it was difficult for me to talk about topics that made them feel shy and at the same time very curious.
The value of the game
Alongside my work as a teacher, I studied a degree in educational psychology and, although the career has many points in common with teaching, the contributions on learning are substantially richer. This educational psychology perspective gave me the “other piece” that I was missing: playfulness. It was during my career that I realized the enormous value of play in the learning process.
My personal project
In 2015, I left my job as a teacher (although I worked for two more years in a middle school) and at that time I decided to carry out my own project, an initiative that would promote equity and a more just society through comprehensive sexual education with a playful approach. That is how Poner en Juego /In Ludus was born. At that time, it was difficult for me to talk about topics that made them feel shy and at the same time very curious.
