Tag: Thinking
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NEN Discuss: Waldorf/Steiner Education
The origins of Steiner Waldorf education? When exploring Steiner’s Waldorf educational philosophy and pedagogy, it is useful to understand the name and its origins. Firstly, Steiner refers to the theorist and founder of this educational approach, Rudolf Steiner. Whereas, Waldorf refers to the location of the first school to embrace Steiner’s approach, which opened in…
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NEN Discuss: Differentiation or Adaption?
Differentiation or Adaption? Exploring these terms as distinctive terms might be helpful before discussing whether educators should be using differentiation, adaption or a mixture of both. A more in-depth exploration can be found here: NEN Summary: Differentiation, NEN Summary: Adaptive teaching and NEN Explain: Differentiation. Differentiation is a bottom-up approach to supporting individuals as the…
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NEN Discuss: Learning Styles, VARK
What is VARK? To begin with, defining the term ‘learning styles’ seems appropriate as this will form part of the discussion around VARK. As suggested by Pashler et al. (2020), a learning style is a broad range of concepts, ideas and theories around an individual’s theoretically preferred mode of information devilry and the mode that…
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NEN Discuss: Gesell’s Maturation Theory
What is Maturation Theory? This theory of physical and cognitive development links to the thinking of the Motor-Development school of thought. To fully understand Gesell’s theory, an understanding of the term maturation is needed. Maturation, therefore, is the process of growth and development that an individual experiences and that maturation is not a singular event…
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NEN Discuss: Sustained Shared Thinking
What is Sustained Shared Thinking? Sustained Shared Thinking can be described as a period of time in which two or more individuals are working together both holding concentration on a specific task and working collaboratively to co-construct knowledge, skills and behaviours. Sustained Shared Thinking can only occur if both individuals are equally developing, promoting and…
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