Chinese learners achieve remarkable success levels compared to their Western peers. But it’s not simply based on rote learning and passive education. The reality is more complex – and more creative.
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Memorising poetry is a kind of long-term investment. To take a poem with us so we can truly know it, we must know it by heart.
Research shows play-based learning programs enhance children’s learning outcomes and teaches them skills relevant to the 21st century, such as problem-solving and creativity.
Kenyans need to be wary of early learning centres that pressure children with academic drills.
Memorising facts and completing drills is likely to improve your maths skills – just so long as you find a way to stay motivated.
Is there a poem buried deep in the recesses of your memory? Earlier this month, on the UK’s National Poetry Day, we launched a nationwide poetry survey inviting people to tell us a poem they know by heart…
The British Chancellor George Osborne recently refused to answer a simple times table question posed to him by seven-year-old school boy Samuel Reddings. Osborne was asked the question 7x8, but declined…
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Deakin University
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Director of the Centre for Professional Education, University of Warwick
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Research Associate, The Poetry and Memory Project, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, Deakin University
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University Lecturer in English and Children's Literature, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Mount Kenya University
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Vice Rector in Gjøvik, CQUniversity Australia