Educational Alternatives and When to Employ Them
There is probably a ‘critical mass’ when it comes to traditional education - the kind of schooling that we have all become accustomed to,...
Designing Lessons That Work
In designing a lesson, you are trying to do two basic things: 1. Transmit a knowledge or skill in such a way that it seems like part of...
Another Look at Child-centred Learning
In the Internet Age it’s become commonplace for businesses to view the entire globe as a single giant ‘shop’ through which humanity (or...
Five Simple Parenting Tips
Parenting - probably the most important job of anyone’s life. And yet there is no formal training or real preparation for it. Here are...
The New Education Part 2
The rapid industrialisation of Britain throughout the 19th-century brought about a transformation in the education system: instead of a...
Re-designing Education
Imagine a small circle representing a child’s world; then imagine next to it a much larger circle containing the knowledge that human...
Starting a School?
Now that the education market has started to open up, are you thinking of starting a private school? It goes without saying that it’s a...
Education and Social Engineering
Education wasn’t always delivered in the way to which we have become accustomed today. In the Middle Ages, education was seen as a...
The Task of the Educator
The success of education has to do with the way in which educators present and communicate knowledge of the world to young people. In...
Helping Children to Learn English
English is the third most common native language in the world, is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of the...