Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder should be offered extra support at school.
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Adolescents have important developmental work to do. Despite what worried grownups think, taking needless risks isn’t the goal for teens. Being risky is part of exploring and learning about the world.
Each year large numbers of college students drop plans to become engineers or scientists because of poor performance in calculus. A new ‘active learning’ approach could help turn things around.
E-learning is both a technological and a social innovation. At its best, it can address problems within a particular social context.
African board games are learning spaces for players to develop cognitive and non-cognitive skills given the mechanics or rules embedded in these games.
Schools have a duty to teach children morality, but which moral values should they teach?
With studies from the past year exploring the relationship between smartphone use and mental health, sleep, learning and romance, a more nuanced portrait of the device has emerged.
To counter the unbalanced effects of the digital age, reading literature is the key.
Research shows that many students are excessively optimistic about course grades. Those with a stronger sense of personal control are also less likely to receive the grades they expect.
It’s common knowledge that children are voracious learners but the famous cliche suggests that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. This simply isn’t true.
For future machines to be as smart as we are, they’ll need to be able to learn like we do.
Negative experiences in mainstream schools have harmful long-term effects on pupils with autism spectrum conditions.
Learning another language is more than just a boost to your CV. It makes you smarter, more decisive and even better at English.
Despite heavy investment by universities, student experience of feedback higher education continues to be less than desirable, especially for at-risk students.
When it comes to engaging young people in their school studies, inclusivity means a lot.
Pavlov’s drooling dogs hold the key to understanding many of our most important emotional experiences – as well as the overt actions we take to adapt to a world fraught with daunting challenges.
NAPLAN is great at tracking changes over time and between demographics, but not so great at measuring what factors effect change, engagement or creativity.
From collecting bugs to using math apps, there are many ways parents can engage in STEM activities with their kids to support their learning.
It’s not enough to base teaching and learning policy on big data analysis, evidence needs to be rich, persuasive and justifiable and provide practical support to develop teaching approaches.
Should children with reading difficulties get their hearing checked?
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Macquarie University
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Campus and Secondary Principal at the International School of Geneva's La Grande Boissière, Research Associate at the University of Geneva's department of Education and Psychology, Université de Genève, Université de Genève
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology