African board games are learning spaces for players to develop cognitive and non-cognitive skills given the mechanics or rules embedded in these games.
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Policy choices made by Senegal, Ghana, Rwanda, Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Togo over the past 15 years have led to significant reductions in child undernourishment.
The affective domain - motivation, interest and values and their inter-relationships - forms an integral component in facilitating learners’ construction of physics knowledge.
Parents who notice their child has a flat head should talk to a GP or specialist to see if any treatment is needed.
Little kids cover their own eyes and feel hidden, even if they’re still fully visible. New research suggests this doesn’t mean children can’t understand others’ perspectives, as had been assumed.
There’s more to learning handwriting than just joined-up letters.
Bilingual children’s progress in learning vocabularly depends on their parents.
Ochre has many uses. It can be used to shed information on the evolution of the modern mind.
In some ways, it’s spot-on. In others, not so much.
New research has shown that living near green spaces can improve children’s cognitive development.
The ability to think critically benefits individuals and societies. Why, then, is it so rare for critical thinking to be taught in schools?
After a new study found no link between the hours a person spends gaming and their cognitive abilities, we look at the evidence.
Older adults are less able to ignore distractions as they try to remember things.
Teenagers need to trust their parents and learn about trusting others. Apps like Teensafe might undermine both.
Learning from TV programmes is rooted in repetition and interaction.
Language is traditionally associated with the left side of the brain. But Mandarin speakers are using the right side.
This fall, the deaths of three high school football players were linked to direct head injuries on the field of play and one collegiate football player’s death has been potentially attributed to unresolved…
As they reach the end of primary school, the UK’s children face persistent inequalities in their cognitive development. New findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a survey of children born between…
Why does it take so long for human children to grow up? A male chimp and male human, for example, both end up with the same body weight but they grow very differently: at year one the human weighs twice…
As their children submit themselves to the ordeal of all-important end-of-year exams, parents of high school and university students may be wondering what they can do to help. One thing they ought to consider…
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