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Children's learning
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Some comments on the commonalities between the Suzuki approach to learning music and the Montessori approach to education.
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Compulsory Education: When it starts and how long it lasts
Around the world, for the most part, compulsory schooling starts at 6, although some start at 7, and a very few at 5 or even younger....
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Many parents enrol their children in Montessori preschools because they are an "educational" way of getting childminding - if you're going to put...
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Two large-scale international studies have become established to compare countries' performance in the core subjects of literacy, mathematics and science.
TIMSS: Trends in International...
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I want to talk to you this month about an educational project that’s been running for some years here in New Zealand. The Project on Learning spent three years...
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Montessori education
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Most people believe that an adult learner can't hope to replicate the fluency of someone who learned another language in childhood. And certainly there is research to support this....
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A number of countries have national curricula: France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom. Most States...
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Children’s understanding, and their use of memory and learning strategies, is a considerably more complex situation than most of us realize. To get some feeling for this complexity, let...
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We all know that lack of sleep makes us more prone to attentional failures, more likely to make mistakes, makes new information harder to learn, old information harder to...
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Individual differences
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Are you right-brained or left-brained?
One of the dumber questions around.
I think it’s safe to say that if you only had one hemisphere of your...
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You may have heard of “g”. It’s the closest we’ve come to that elusive attribute known as “intelligence”, but it is in fact a...
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Intelligence in a cultural context
One theory of intelligence sees intelligence in terms of adaptiveness. Thus: "What constitutes intelligence depends upon what the situation...
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Widely cited gender differences in cognition
It is clear that there are differences between the genders in terms of cognitive function; it is much less clear that there are differences in...
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I’ve always been interested in the body’s clocks — and one of the most interesting things is that it is clocks, in the plural. It appears the main clock is located in a part of the...
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Brain development
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The conventional view of brain development has been that most of this takes place in utero and in the first three years, with the further development continuing until the brain is fully mature at around 10-12 years of age. The turbulence of adolescent behavior has been deemed to be mostly caused by hormonal changes.
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Children’s understanding, and their use of memory and learning strategies, is a considerably more complex situation than most of us realize. To get some feeling for this complexity, let’s start by looking at a specific area of knowledge: mathematics.
Children's math understanding
Here’s a math problem:
Pete has 3 apples. Ann also has some apples. Pete and Ann have 9...
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