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Sep 24, 2013 · Earlier this month the "Too Much, Too Soon" campaign made headlines with a letter calling for a change to the start age for formal learning in schools. Here, one of the signatories, Cambridge researcher David Whitebread, from the Faculty of Education , explains why children may need more time to develop before their formal education begins in earnest.
Aug 10, 2022 · School Starting Age: The Evidence Says '7 Years'. In September last year the "Too Much, Too Soon" campaign made headlines in the UK with a letter calling for a change to the start age for formal learning in schools. Here, one of the signatories, Cambridge researcher David Whitebread, from the Faculty of Education, explains why children may need ...
Nov 13, 2013 · It called for an extension of informal, play-based preschool provision and for the start of formal schooling in England to be delayed until the age of 7, from the current effective start at age 4.
- Among The Earliest in Europe
- Importance of Play
- Longer-Term Impacts
Children in England are admitted into reception classes in primary schools at age four; in many cases, if their birthdays are in the summer months, when they have only just turned four. This is in stark contrast to the vast majority of other European countries, many of which currently enjoy higher levels of educational achievement. In Europe, the m...
A range of anthropological studies of children’s play in hunter-gatherer societies and other evolutionary psychology studiesof play in the young of mammals have identified play as an adaptation which evolved in early human social groups, enabling humans to become powerful learners and problem-solvers. Some neuroscientists’ research has supported th...
Within educational research, a number of longitudinal studies have provided evidence of long-term outcomes of play-based learning. A 2002 US study by Rebecca Marcon, for example, demonstrated that by the end of their sixth year in school, children whose pre-school model had been academically-directed achieved significantly lower marks in comparison...
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Sep 12, 2013 · Children should not start formal school lessons until the age of six or seven, a group of experts has said. The Save Childhood Movement has called for the changes as it launches its Too Much, Too ...
Nov 1, 2016 · The Tennessee programme is aimed at ‘school readiness’ so it focuses on pre-literacy and pre-numeracy skills, along with preparation for formal class-based learning. Its results mirror those of the US High/Scope Perry research study fifty years ago, except that in 2016 the disadvantages of a ‘school readiness’ approach seem to be apparent rather earlier.
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Sep 12, 2013 · Formal school lessons should start 'above age of five'. 12 September 2013. The signatories said the current system focused too much on formal education. Children should not start formal school ...
