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Although there exists a significant body of empirical evidence that demonstrates the value of the arts in education (Bamford, 2006; Ewing, 2010; Unesco, 2010), they nevertheless continue to be...
Continue readingA wide range of literature has found that homework is positive for students’ academic achievement (see for example Murillo & Martínez-Garrido, 2013; Fernández-Alonso, Álvarez-Díaz,...
Continue readingCulture varies across different contexts, and so does pedagogy. The nexus of culture and pedagogy was one of the themes extensively discussed at the recent Comparative and International Education...
Continue readingPresenting a powerful new mechanism for encouraging play-based learning that reflects a more up-to-date and holistic view of technology use in the early years.
Continue readingThe relationships between youth activism, engagement and education are vitally important in the current context, in which the pressures of globalisation and populism are emerging from and fuelling...
Continue readingWhat is the role of transnational and national education policies in the realisation of critical thinking?
Continue readingThose who study and work within education know that it is not just the explicit, intentional content that is taught in schools and that results in learning. Moment-to-moment transfers of meaning...
Continue readingPhonological processing refers to an individual’s sensitivity to the sounds of a language, and the capacity to use these sounds to decode linguistic information. It is noted that phonological...
Continue readingThe ways in which local educational stakeholders interpret and understand curriculum reform is crucial to its effects on everyday school practice (see for exampleSpillane, Reiser & Reimer, 2002)....
Continue readingSocieties in many parts of the world are still dealing with the colonial legacy of educational systems that served a privileged few. Efforts are constantly made to redress the resulting historic...
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Generous access to technologies in the digital age provides alternative resources for educational practices. While the educational use of information and communication technology (ICT) increases...
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Literary criticism of children’s literature focusses on the power relations between the adult writer and the child reader. At one end of the spectrum, this relationship is described as...
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