The challenge for education is not to erect an artificial barrier between culture deemed worthy and culture deemed popular. It is to give students the skills to recognise the difference between simply consuming something and understanding it....
Jane Messer looks at Chloe Hooper's recent memoir "Bedtime Story" The fifth book from Chloe Hooper, an accomplished author of fiction and nonfiction, is in part a bedtime story told across many nights to her two sons, and in part a meditation on how stories –...
2020 ‘Storyathon’ event shows an uptick in social awareness amongst children in lockdown during COVID-19. Data from Oxford University Press in partnership with Storyathon, the largest story-writing event in Australia, reveals the impact COVID-19 has had on children’s vocabulary, interests and social awareness.More than 20,000 stories...
