{"title":"Teaching and learning: what matters for intervention","authors":"Sonali Nag","doi":"10.1080/03054985.2023.2161197","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"New learning is crucial for child development. Research in the last century has identified several sub-skills that must come together for the remarkable growth in skills seen during the early years. This research has provided two important insights about child development – a variety of basic processes underpin children’s learning and these bases of learning, while universal, are influenced by the learning context. The study of contexts has spanned multiple levels from home environments and teaching practices to the culture of communities and government policies related to early childhood care and education. More recently, the social, health and educational disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as another powerful contextual factor that has deeply impacted learning. In this editorial, I consider five premises to draw attention to the essential core of intervention – the assumption that there will be new learning among children who receive the intervention. The five premises are introduced using examples of typical learning achievements observed in the early childhood years before drawing on papers in this special issue to examine how context and learning interact, and what these might mean for new directions in early childhood intervention research","PeriodicalId":47910,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Review of Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Oxford Review of Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2161197","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
New learning is crucial for child development. Research in the last century has identified several sub-skills that must come together for the remarkable growth in skills seen during the early years. This research has provided two important insights about child development – a variety of basic processes underpin children’s learning and these bases of learning, while universal, are influenced by the learning context. The study of contexts has spanned multiple levels from home environments and teaching practices to the culture of communities and government policies related to early childhood care and education. More recently, the social, health and educational disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as another powerful contextual factor that has deeply impacted learning. In this editorial, I consider five premises to draw attention to the essential core of intervention – the assumption that there will be new learning among children who receive the intervention. The five premises are introduced using examples of typical learning achievements observed in the early childhood years before drawing on papers in this special issue to examine how context and learning interact, and what these might mean for new directions in early childhood intervention research
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The Oxford Review of Education is a well established journal with an extensive international readership. It is committed to deploying the resources of a wide range of academic disciplines in the service of educational scholarship, and the Editors welcome articles reporting significant new research as well as contributions of a more analytic or reflective nature. The membership of the editorial board reflects these emphases, which have remained characteristic of the Review since its foundation. The Review seeks to preserve the highest standards of professional scholarship in education, while also seeking to publish articles which will be of interest and utility to a wider public, including policy makers.