Yang Yang shares how encouraging her daughter to ‘live bilingual’ carries on her culture. Communication has become difficult since my daughter Yolanda turned four last year. She switches to English when she feels she isn’t understood or can’t find the right Chinese word to convey her...
Why do so many schools have cupboards full of musical instruments gathering dust? Dr Alexander Crooke looks for possible answers. Musical participation in schools has been increasingly linked to a range of benefits deemed critical for today’s students. This includes fostering creativity, offering unique ways of...
Debate over how to teach children to read has raged over the past 40 years. But what is the best practice for those children who are struggling with reading and how should we intervene? Dr Jon Quach, Dr Tanya Serry, Professor Janet Clinton and Professor Sharon...
Kids spend nearly three-quarters of their school day sitting, report Natalie Lander and Jo Salmon. Here's how to get them moving during lessons. Regular physical activity is linked to improvements in physical and mental health including anxiety and depression. It can also improve cognitive functioning such...
Students across Australia have started the new school year using pencils, pens and keyboards to learn to write. In workplaces, machines are also learning to write, so effectively that within a few years they may write better than humans, predicts Lucinda McKnight. Sometimes they already do,...
Woolworths gets the next generation of environmental champions buzzing with $1.5million in grants for Australian schools Primary schools and early learning centres across the country are set to get a Bee Bonus as part of a $1.5million investment by Woolworths into the 2021 Woolworths Junior Landcare...
It’s easy to get excited about the prospects of mindfulness in education, writes Christopher T. McCaw However, as I see it, in the rush to implement mindfulness in schools we may be neglecting some important, complex issues to do with its conceptualisation (how we define and...
It’s surprisingly difficult for parents to find straightforward, expert advice on porn and their kids. Here's what to do instead, writes Alan McKee. 2020 has been the year of the coronavirus lockdown, the year of online education, the year of excessive streaming of entertainment … and...
Scholarships offer many bonuses to recipients and their schools, writes Donna Reis. ...
Strange as it may seem, Kate Middleton, Charlotte Bronte and Charles Darwin’s mother share something in common, writes Dr Penny Sheehan. They all suffered extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.Obstetricians refer to the condition as hyperemesis gravidarum, but nobody is quite sure why it occurs....
