Curriculum Narrowing: Are the Humanities in Crisis?
Curriculum narrowing is a problem in the UK and in other countries due to pressure to achieve in high-stakes testing of a limited number of subjects....
Curriculum narrowing is a problem in the UK and in other countries due to pressure to achieve in high-stakes testing of a limited number of subjects....
The humanities, arts and social sciences develop transferable skills and there is evidence that these subjects are linked to leadership....
Argument mapping uses a combination of simple statements and symbols to display an argument as a diagram, making it easier to understand....
Dual coding theory claims that we process verbal and non-verbal information separately, using two different cognitive systems....
Argument mapping was developed as a way of reducing the cognitive load involved in learning arguments. In an argument map, the extraneous load is reduced by only including simple statements that are essential to the argument....
Ofsted call cognitive load theory "an important contribution to learning science", but what is it? Cognitive load theory has been around for over three decades, but it wasn’t until the last few years that it really started to take off in education....