Psychology

Learning styles don’t exist

A teaching approach that is based on students’ preferences sounds laudable. But this misunderstands how learning happens

Carl Hendrick

Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds

3 minutes

The vulva dialogues – inside a sex-ed class that rebels against genitalia shame

11 minutes

What does the Dutch model of comprehensive, ‘shame-free’ sex-ed look like?

9 minutes

The charity that teaches underprivileged kids to humanely hunt their next meal

10 minutes

A retired teacher embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student

16 minutes

Parents have long suspected Pokémon rewires kids’ brains. Now there’s evidence

7 minutes

Kid culture

In most cultures, kids tag along with grownups or mooch with friends but American life is heavy with ‘kid-friendly’ artifice

Sarah Menkedick

I was homeschooled for eight years: here’s what I recommend

Mordechai Levy-Eichel

Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself

Jyoti Mishra

It’s great to learn music as a child – except when it’s no fun at all

10 minutes

The school where children make the rules and learn what they want to learn

28 minutes

Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material

Christian Jarrett

The value of shame

Immanuel Kant held that moral education is hydraulic: shame squashes down our vices, making space for virtue to rise up

Louise Chapman

The growth mindset problem

A generation of schoolchildren is being exhorted to believe in their brain’s elasticity. Does it really help them learn?

Carl Hendrick