Child Development

Investigation

Gemma Aylward

Target Audience:

Children

Main Influence

My

Younger

Brother

Social Context

Editorial

Report

Writing

Style

Volunteer at

Norwich

Castle

Museum and

Gallery

The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 Year Olds

Professor Paul Howard-Jones

Professor of Neuroscience and

Education

Dr Sam Wass

Lecturer of Psychology

Contact local

Montessori schools.

Why different styles of

teaching methods.

Children should learn mainly through play until age of eight, says Lego by the Guardian.

Parents choice of

Schooling

Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship: Exploring the role of education

‘This distinguished group of educators and

scholars examine the topic within its social and

cultural context; within the context of cognitive

psychology and the neurosciences; and within

the context of what it means to do work that is

both excellent and ethical within the

professions, most importantly as educators.’

Understanding art in primary schools.

‘Even the youngest children in primary

schools are now required not only to make

art, but also to study it, developing an

understanding of the huge variety of art and

craft from different times and places. But

how do teachers actually tackle this, when

most have not studied art themselves? This

collection brings together case studies to

show how a variety of teachers have used

one particular art collection as a focus for

practical art.

Throughout, the voices of the children

involved show us how they react to their

encounters with art objects.

This wealth of first hand evidence and

practical experience will benefit all

teachers.’

The UK Government's publication of "All our Futures:

Culture, Creativity and Education" has started a

discussion about fostering creativity in education.

Literature on creativity has made two assumptions:

that we can learn about creativity by focussing on the

work of geniuses; and creativity is the preserve of

the arts, rather than the concern of the curriculum as

a whole. This examination offers a guide to issues of

practice, pedagogy and policy concerned with

creative education.

Creativity in Education

“Yes. Kids are born scientists. They’re born probing the

natural world that surrounds them. They’ll lift up a rock.

They’ll pick up a bug. They’ll pull petals off a flower.

They’ll ask you why the grass is green and the sky is blue,

and they’ll experiment with breakable things in your

house. I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising

a child, is simply get out of their way.” Neil deGrasseTyson (2011) American Astrophysicist

Bilingualism

How does the culture of more than one

language affect child development

Young cousin currently being raised

with both English and Spanish.

Friend raised in Tamil, Dutch and

English.

I sense that I’m going to receive from my research an

amount of personal opinions and reasoning's for

choices of child-raising as well as scientific facts about

the way children learn about the world whilst going

through early development.

I’m hoping to gain at the end of my research

a thorough investigation into how play,

creativity and different styles of education

benefits children when learning and

discovering about the world. I believe by

having the knowledge about how children

learn, I can use this thinking into my practice

to make it valuable for children to learn from

and yet be interactive enough to be

enjoyable.