Making kids read makes them less interested in it
Reading logs and mandated reading are intended to give children the benefits which enthusiastic recreational readers enjoy. A study published in the Journal of Research...
Category : How We Learn
Informal learning: an interview with Dr Alan Thomas
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Dr Alan Thomas, the country’s leading academic expert on alternative education, talks about the way in which informal education works, in an interview for Education...
Love of learning more important than IQ
by dan
Decades of research from educational psychologists Adele and Allen Gottfried show that motivation is more important than high IQ in success and that we need...
Kids learn maths easily when they control their own learning – Peter Gray
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Professor of psychology Peter Gray on the many joyful ways kids learn maths when they follow their interests and shares personal stories of different learners....