Creator
Elizabeth Henning
Professor Elizabeth Henning is director at the Centre for Education Practice Research at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a South Africa Research chair: Integrated Studies of Learning Language, Science and Mathematics in the Primary School
What can go wrong in the teaching of reading?
Helping a novice reader is so much more than teaching them the names of letters
Children will learn under lockdown
Just what they’ll learn or be taught will be outside the curriculum, which may have to happen later
Three Rs plus playful classes builds creativity, critical thinking
How does one educate for critical thinking and problem-solving, creativity, collaboration and teamwork, communication and information literacy?
Counting on pre-school maths
Many SA children enter school already unable to deal with the mathematics curriculum
Solving the problem of maths
Our expensive testing and research still do not tell us enough about how children learn the subject, writes Elizabeth Henning.
Simple language is the answer to ‘difficult’ assessment tests
The use of terms that are at a level beyond the grasp of pupils is producing flawed results.