A pilot study shows how after-school-hours care can play an important role in building children's well-being and social connection. The program involves children in the design process and gives them a voice and role to shape ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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The world of writing is changing.
Social Sciences
Jun 7, 2023
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In recent years, concerns have been raised about children and adolescents being less physically active and having weaker motor skills than previous generations. A further cause of concern is the decline of for instance mathematical ...
Education
Jun 6, 2023
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The way people type and use their computer mouse can be better stress indicators than their heart rate, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday, adding their model could help prevent chronic stress.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2023
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Neuroscientist Katharina von Kriegstein from Technische Universität Dresden and Brian Mathias from the University of Aberdeen have compiled extensive interdisciplinary findings from neuroscience, psychology, computer modeling ...
Education
Feb 1, 2023
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Since 2008, Australia has spent more than A$11 billion dollars over ten years to expand government-funded preschool (or kinder in Victoria) for four-year-olds to better prepare children for school.
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2022
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Sports scientists at Nottingham Trent University examined how bouts of physically active math lessons for eight hours per week affected children aged 6–7 during their first two years of school, by comparing them with another ...
Education
Sep 27, 2022
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Research shows that historically, large-scale events such as World War II, the Great Depression, the 2008 recession and the SARS and N1H1 epidemics have impacted children's developmental trajectories with long-lasting effects. ...
Education
Feb 23, 2022
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Squirrels and other tree-dwelling rodents evolved to have bigger brains than their burrowing cousins, a study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2021
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New EPFL research on whether handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different alphabetic scripts may pave the way for cross-lingual digital tools for the detection of handwriting difficulties.
Education
Feb 26, 2021
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