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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The report indicates clear evidence that “well-designed primary schools boost children’s academic performance in reading, writing, and math” (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett, 2015, p. The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. Cited Sources Barrett, P., &

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Writing notes instead of typing pits scholars against each other

The Hechinger Report

A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes?

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Is the privilege of the examiner a myth?

A Psychology Teacher Writes

I’m thinking here primarily about my own subject, Psychology, or any other where there aren’t simply right or wrong answers most of the time, and therefore examining requires interpretation and application of a mark scheme. I’m just not sure. And, to be clear, I’ve never examined. What might examining give you?

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Decomposing decision-making: a cognitive dimension to teacher rehearsal

A Psychology Teacher Writes

That is, recombining specific elements of a particular practice into a different sequence (eg Janssen et al, 2015). Janssen, Grossman & Westbroek (2015). Contemporary educational psychology, 61, 101860. Facilitating decomposition and recomposition in practice-based teacher education: The power of modularity.

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Psychology in the Classroom - One Year Later

Jonathan Firth

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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The New Neuroscience of Learning: How Brain Research Validates Montessori Methods

Maitri Learning

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). For instance, a study by Han (2015) compared young adults raised in East Asian versus Western cultures. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Gotlieb, R. link] Han, S.