I’m passionate about children learning through doing, using real-world situations to learn wherever possible and being involved in ‘work worth doing’. In doing so, they are encouraged to be useful members of our communities and society as a whole. So it is good to see research out today from the ESRC that argues that children [...]
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Learning, rather than being taught. (How boys are falling behind at school and what can be done to help them.)
October 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Education, Homeschooling and School
As the mother of four boys, two of whom are now in school and a third in preschool, it worries me to read that boys are falling further behind in school and that one in five boys cannot write their name after a year of primary school:
Boys have fallen further behind girls in key areas [...]
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