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Category Archives: Childhood
How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development
In my last post, I summarized research indicating that early academic training produces long-term harm. Now, in this post, I will delve a bit into the question of how that might happen. It’s useful here to distinguish between academic skills and … Continue reading
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Tagged Child psychology, childhood
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Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm
Many preschool and kindergarten teachers have told me that they are extremely upset—some to the point of being ready to resign—by the increased pressure on them to teach academic skills to little children and regularly test them on such skills. … Continue reading
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Tagged Child psychology, childhood
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Insecure childhood can make dealing with stress harder
Imagine two candidates at a high stakes job interview. One of them handles the pressure with ease and sails through the interview. The other candidate, however, feels very nervous and under-performs. Why do some people perform better than others under emotionally … Continue reading
Child Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm
Many preschool and kindergarten teachers have told me that they are extremely upset—some to the point of being ready to resign—by the increased pressure on them to teach academic skills to little children and regularly test them on such skills. … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Preschoolers
Tagged childhood, preschoolers
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Happiness and Children
It is a mistake to expect children to be happy, worse still to insist on it. Childhood is navigated via rage and disappointment as much as by joy and pleasure, often in quick succession. Nevertheless, a five-year-old knows about as … Continue reading
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood
Despite American education’s mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Children, Curiosity, Curiosity-based learning, Curious, Early childhood
Tagged childhood, children, curiosity, curiosity-based learning, curious, early childhood
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How to help every Child fulfil their Potential
Ever wondered why kids say they’re bored at school, or why they stop trying when the work gets harder? Educationalist Carol Dweck explains how the wrong kind of praise actually *harms* young people. This short video is essential viewing for … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Learning, Learning environmernt
Tagged childhood, Learning, learning environmernt
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Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Post-structural Ideas
This book draws on a broad range of poststructural and postcolonial thinkers, and pays particular attention to the intersections of race, class and gender. Within this theoretical framework, it shows the important contribution that Foucault and other poststructural theorists can … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, foucault, poststructural, research
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Analysing Interactions in Childhood: Insights from Conversation Analysis
Offers a fresh perspective on how conversation analysis can be used to highlight the sophisticated nature of what children actually do when interacting with their peers, parents, and other adults. Brings together a contributor team of leading experts in the … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, conversation analysis, conversations, interaction
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Foucault and the Early Childhood Classroom
Foucault’s notion of “regimes of truth” provides an understanding of how some discourses operate and network together to reinforce a particular powerful view of the world. These can be in oral or written forms. Early childhood education practices are drawn … Continue reading
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