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....
LEARNING ABILITIES are EVERYTHING! Focusing systematically on LEARNING ABILITIES through PLAY for your 3- to 6-year-old, over and above knowledge and skills, is proven to develop QUANTUM LEAPS in their COGNITIVE, COMMUNICATIVE and SELF-REGULATIVE development,...
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...
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...
How do we help young children develop a love of story, ownership of story language, a profound understanding of story structure and a repertoire of rich language? All young children like to listen to fairy tales and other traditional stories, but do they really...
This article was written by Helen Rumbelow and was originally published in The Times newspaper. Gabriella is a seven-year-old at a state primary school in Hertfordshire. But when her teacher asks her to put on a pair of giant gold heart-shaped glasses to read...
