Category : How We Learn

Government commissioned literature reviews concluded that there were numerous positive outcomes for children of self-regulated and independent learning The idea that children and young people...

What is self-determination anyway? You might have read (here for example) that home education is a very effective educational option because it fulfils the three...

Sugata Mitra is an educational researcher whose experiment of giving poor children in India access to a pc lead to understanding of how children can...

Being interested in what you’re doing makes everything better Interest is a powerful psychological state. It makes us feel energetic and excited, fully engaged and...

A study by psychologists at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver examines the impact of structured and unstructured time on the executive functions...

New research on curiosity has added another layer of knowledge to our understanding of how qualities such as interest, personal involvement and curiosity drive learning...

Conventional schooling makes learning mathematics an entirely cerebral exercise unrelated to the real world, but it really doesn’t have to be Maths can be learnt...

The Washington Post published a brilliant essay by filmmaker, writer and unschooler Carol Black on what we have forgotten about how children learn What the...

Matthew Taylor of the RSA talks about what it means to live a creative life, and why he thinks we’re on the cusp of this...