Drawing on a 2-wave longitudinal sample spanning 40 years from childhood (age 12) to middle
adulthood (age 52), the present study was designed to examine how student characteristics and behaviors
in late childhood (assessed in Wave 1 in 1968) predict career success in adulthood (assessed in Wave 2
in 2008).
Barbara Oakley, a professor at Oakland University in Michigan, in her basement studio where she and her husband created “Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course of all time on Coursera.
Educar não é podar inteligências. Moldá-las, tolher a criatividade, amoldar a voz interior de cada um.
Educar é fazer o outro mais preparado para ser, de fato, quem é.
Como pais ou educadores, a nossa função vai muito além de transmitir um conteúdo determinado. Ela engloba o desafio de aceitar o outro (mesmo pequenino infante ou adolescente) como ser individual e único que lapidará dentro de si, ao seu modo, o conteúdo que lhe for transmitido.
El sueño es tan importante para la salud de los niños que un sueño insuficiente puede ocasionar llanto fácil, irritabilidad, problemas de alimentación y crecimiento.
From the day we’re born, society imposes on us what to do: go to school, blindly believe what you’re being taught, work hard as a wage slave, obey to authority, and so on, not allowing much room for creativity.
Cuando yo tenía siete años mi padre me sentó sobre el pasto durante una larga y calurosa tarde de verano, y me dijo un secreto:
“Eres más sabio que casi toda la gente que jamás he conocido”, dijo.
Yo sonreí tímidamente; luego la sonrisa llegó de oreja a oreja.
“¿En serio?”
For as long as we’ve known, if you’re naughty during class and act up for your teacher, there’s a high chance you might end up in detention.
If you were lucky enough to avoid detention during your school years, your imagination might picture the children’s classic “Matilda” and the fear of being put in “The Chokey”, however, typically detention means sitting in a classroom staring at the walls for hours on end or writing hundred of lines as punishment for misbehaving.
Can being made to sit in a room for hours at a time really improve behavior or make us think twice about our actions next time? According to researchers the answer is no.
According to Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, students who have been either suspended or expelled are twice as likely to drop out of school and fives times as likely to commit crime.
What does this look like, you may ask?
O atual modelo de aula expositiva não é o suficiente para fazer os alunos aprenderem. E quem diz isso é, nada mais, nada menos, que os estudos mais complexos realizados pela neurociência. Foi constatado que um estudante em sala de aula apresenta atividade cerebral baixíssima, a mesma que ocorre ao assistir televisão em casa.
Magda Haroun, head of the Jewish community in Egypt, said in an interview with Al-Hurra TV that she is married to a Catholic man and her two daughters are Muslims.
Children with even mild or passing bouts of depression, anxiety and/or behavioural issues were more inclined to have serious problems that complicated their ability to lead successful lives as adults, according to research from Duke Medicine.
Reporting in the July 15 issue of JAMA Psychiatry, the Duke researchers found that children who had either a diagnosed psychiatric condition or a milder form that didn’t meet the full diagnostic criteria were six times more likely than those who had no psychiatric issues to have difficulties in adulthood, including criminal charges, addictions, early pregnancies, education failures, residential instability and problems getting or keeping a job.
