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The growing demand for more extensive use of discussion in secondary and higher education reflects something deeper than a desire for trendy informality in education. Probably, the most important...
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Instead of burdening his memory with a mass of facts and figures the student of tomorrow will store these in his computer and will be free to analyse the whole, make useful comparisons and draw...
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Do teachers talk too much? I'm afraid we do. Much too much. From the time we enter the school in the morning till we leave it at night, we hardly stop talking. We only realize how much we talk when...
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Modern education has given little place to the lecture in the high school. Some declare that it has no place in the college or university, its time-honored strongholds. Few textbooks on secondary...
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Usually the major objective of discussion methods is to teach students to think. To achieve this the tutor must achieve a number of subsidiary objectives to get the discussion group going. Discussion...
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This same demand for both guidance and freedom appears in comments on the difference between teaching methods in the sixth form and in the main school, and on which methods were found most...
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In this book we have emphasised again and again the need to help children to develop open minds, to think clearly, critically, objectively, and to reflect upon their conclusions, changing them...
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Is it possible to teach and do research at the same time? The work of a number of Christ church teachers strongly suggests that it is. In this report, John Church, Lecturer in Education at the...
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This article explores the shift from “essential skills” to “key competencies” in the school curriculum. Drawing on information gathered from teacher interviews and observations at a New Zealand...
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In early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand it is common practice for teachers to write Learning Stories to document and interpret children’s learning events. What these stories...
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