Playful Learning, Learningful Play – by Patti Blackhurst

Playful Learning, Learningful Play – by Patti Blackhurst

In April 2019, Dainfern College in Johannesburg, Gauteng, hosted 300 delegates from all over South Africa at a 2-day Early Childhood Development (ECD) conference themed ‘Playful Learning, Learningful Play’.   Galina Dolya was their keynote speaker....
Viva Vygotsky!

Viva Vygotsky!

By Galina Dolya and Sue Palmer   LEV VYGOTSKY – A THINKER WHO CHANGED TEACHING He lived for only 38 years, but in his last decade (1924–1934), the Russian thinker Lev Vygotsky transformed the study of developmental psychology. His cultural-historical theory...
Numbers and comparison of quantities

Numbers and comparison of quantities

Understanding numbers and the comparison of quantities Most pre-school children learn to recite numbers, to count a small number of objects correctly and to recognise figures. And yet many of those same children have difficulties starting Mathematics at school. They...
How the learning revolution started

How the learning revolution started

Sue Palmer reports on a revolution in early years education. When a north London secondary head travelled to Russia in search of new ideas for his school he made a discovery that changed his career. Moscow, 1988. Perestroika. The work of Russian psychologist Lev...