This is a kind of follow up on the infamous 30 million word gap, and a sad one to be frank, as this has identified a link between kids who hear high quantities of adult speech and better nonverbal abilities such as reasoning, numeracy and shape awareness.. With a novel way to make sure the… Read More A link between hearing large amounts of adult speech as toddler and better cognitive skills.
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Written by: Chloë Willekens, Elona de Maesschalk, Jean-marie Mahi, Emiel Van Den daele, Andraz Corn en Fien Van der Heyden Introduction: In today’s world, being young is a global lifestyle choice. We live in a postmodern society in which infantile behaviour had become an aspirational model to follow.…
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief with some interesting studies, such as this one: A new study by Steven Sheldon and Sol Bee Jung from our own Johns Hopkins School of Education examines Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV), a strategy for engaging educators and families as a team to support student achievement. The PTHV… Read More Home visits show effect on absenteeism and performance (Best Evidence in Brief)
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Throughout history, there have always been tensions between societal norms and subcultural views. One example of this can be found in the book Folk Devils and Moral Panic (Cohen, 1972), where we see the role the media has on how society views the subcultures of the rockers and…
I found this new study by John Jerrim, Phil Parker and Nikki Shure through a tweet by Christian Bokhove. Before you get offended by the concept of ‘bullshitters’, first let me explain to you what is meant by it: Bullshitting is a well-known social phenomenon. It can be summarised as a situation where an individual… Read More New very interesting research on ‘bullshitters’, based on PISA-data
