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Information becomes more meaningful as it is interrelated with what we already know. Learners may be helped to learn how new ideas should be fitted into their mental scaffolding through the use of...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Learning only testable facts will not be enough for survival. Learning fact-finding skills will not be enough. Independent thinking, being able to make good decisions, having clear values and a store...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Over the past twelve months, I have been working with a group of Australian teachers in the mid-primary school, and with children of about the age of eight. The study which initiated this work is...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article D o you agree with the following statements about poor farmers in India and Africa?
• They are poor through their own fault.
• They are poor because of the climate.
• They are poor because their...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article These days it is common to hear teachers speak about their concern over a lack of discipline shown by many students. Whether the issue of concern is disruptive behaviour, the defiance of authority,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The task of teaching a severely handicapped child mainstreamed into an ordinary secondary school is far from easy. Very little help can be found in the research literature. The bulk of this is geared...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article It is generally the case that teachers, instructing young children to read single words, present these sight-words in the company of pictures representing the same objects. For example, when teaching...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article is based on a paper given at a special seminar on multicultural teaching at Auckland Teachers' College in 1984. The paper gave rise to several strong responses, one of which could be...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Despite the fact that resources to help slow achievers in classrooms are usually less than adequate, we tend to overlook
one of the most powerful sources of children's learning at school - other...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In this article the authors describe 5 barriers to learning faced by apprentices. They then outline a number of practical ideas that teachers and tutors can use to overcome these barriers.
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article