There are two types of knowledge – we’ve evolved to acquire the first naturally; we need schools for the second. Cognitive load theory explains how to teach knowledge we don’t automatically get.
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A large number of young people are reluctant to accept evolution. How we teach the topic might be a key reason why.
A scholar’s efforts to learn how textbooks in New Jersey were portraying the Holocaust leads her to testify against a history teacher who taught his students to question if the Holocaust took place.
Explicit instruction is a type of teaching model where students are shown what to do and how to do it.
The ability of multilingual children to learn and advance academically from pre-primary has little to do with their English proficiency.
By improving trainee physics teachers’ content knowledge and skills, we make them better.
You may not “like” it, but Facebook has an important role to play in education.
Math instruction is stuck in the last century. How can we change teaching methods to move past rote memorization and help students develop a more meaningful understanding – and be better at math?
Students in high school now will be eligible to vote during the 2020 election cycle. How can we prepare them to become informed citizens in an era of misinformation, where anyone can publish anything?
In English and science alike, every student and teacher brings his or her own language patterns to class. But how can educators make sure that language bias doesn’t harm student achievement?
A complex issue requires sensitive techniques.
We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.
Our schooling system needs a rethink.
In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
Coaches are sometimes thought of as ‘teachers’ of their sport. So what can coaches learn from the field of education?
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
A recent report confirms that the alumni of British “public schools” still control politics and many top professions. One reason those people are so successful in public life is, of course, that their…
A new online hub has been established for teachers interested in interactive teaching models. Researchers at Harvard University…
Schoolchildren should be classed by intellectual ability in subject groupings rather than lumped together according to age, says Miraca Gross, the University of New South Wales’ Professor of Gifted Education…
That “Eureka” moment when a student thunders over an educational hurdle opening up a new realm of learning, is the holy grail for educators. The technical term is a “threshold concept”, and they’re being…
Top contributors
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor Miraca Gross, UNSW Sydney
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Reader, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor, Gender Equity in Sport, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Professor of Science Education, UCL
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Research Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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Emeritus Professor of Education and Director of Oracy Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Senior lecturer, University of Cambridge
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Researcher, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Oregon
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The University of Western Australia
