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Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves
When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their brain activity also...
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Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about tools
The findings of the study, based on the Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher, help solve a debate about whether children learning to use tools are genuinely learning about physical causation or are...
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Extra classroom time may do little to help pupils recover lost learning after...
The University of Cambridge analysis used five years of Government data, collected from more than 2,800 schools in England, to estimate the likely impact of additional classroom instruction on academic...
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"It’s almost as if they don’t exist”: Education policy fails to account for...
The research, which is published in a book launched on Tuesday 9 November, found that the key piece of statutory guidance underpinning education for PMLD learners – the Special Needs and Disabilities...
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Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better at GCSE
The study, of just over 800 pupils in England, found a positive relationship between GCSE scores and ‘multilingual identity’: a reference to whether pupils felt a personal connection with other...
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'Reductive' models of wellbeing education risk failing children, researchers...
In a new compendium of academic analysis, researchers argue that despite decades of investment in ‘positive education’ – such as programmes to teach children happiness and mindfulness– schools still...
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Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded...
For nearly 150 years, the concept of intelligence and its study have offered scientific ways of classifying people in terms of their “ability”. The drive to identify and quantify exceptional mental...
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Can AI be a good creative partner?
It’s a big question for people working on creative tasks: can humans and AI work together to boost creativity? Studies have yielded widely inconsistent results in how humans working with AI can handle...
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Education and the brain: what happens when children learn?
Education and the brain: what happens when children learn?Have you lost your house keys recently? If so, you probably applied a spot of logical thinking. You looked first in the most obvious places –...
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Eye contact helps infants ‘tune in’ to speaker’s brainwaves and learn language
Eye contact helps infants ‘tune in’ to speaker’s brainwaves and learn language Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them...
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