You are here
Search results
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8
Author Dr Roseanna Bourke takes the reader on a fascinating exploration of learning: the theory, practice and young people’s take on it. What do you say to a young person who tells you her brain is...
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
![application/pdf PDF icon](/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png)
![application/pdf PDF icon](/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png)
Children are not failures in the normative sense when they arrive at school but the process of labelling a child as a failure begins early in his school career. The early school years a:re...
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
Research into the use of Beginning School Mathematics shows that the resource must be used flexibly and creatively in order to achieve the best mathematics learning amongst junior school children.
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
Many years of patient research have discovered how new ideas get formed, embedded, and remembered at the 8- to 12-year-old level. The conclusions are vital for all teaching.
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
Listening to parents and teachers and then working on ways to close the gap between their widely differing expectations.
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
Some children learn best using verbal instructions and explanations; others prefer visual material. Some children learn well in one way, but prefer the other (at which they are not as...
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction...
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)
Ngā Kete Kōrero (The Language Baskets), a national research study commissioned by the Ministry of Māori Development Te Puni Kōkiri in 1993, has provided comprehensive information about the...
![](/misc/message-24-info.png)