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Every medium has its use
Fiona de Villiers reviewsUSING MEDIA IN TEACHING – LEARNING GUIDE by Carol Bertram, Peter Ranby, Mike Adendorff, Yvonne Reed, Nicky Roberts (Oxford University Press, R250)…
Escape into infinity
As author Peter Ackroyd points out, the most singular defining characteristic of humans has always been our ‘endless and inexhaustible curiosity”. Even as our first ancestors…
A work of excellence and wonder
My class mates and I grew up enduring this kind of torture in the form of geography textbooks. They were dense, grey and boring and crammed with facts that seemed completely…
Reviews – Make room for a little drama
<i>Theteacher</i> views <i>Drama with Children</i> which forms part of Oxford University Press’s successful <i>Resource Books for Teachers</i> series and is aimed at younger…
Proper values can stop bullies.
Around the world, bullying has always been part of the hidden curriculum at schools. Despite the strategies that have been developed to deal with this scourge, it continues to…
HIV/Aids: Listen, understand and act
It’s a fact that while many teachers are uncertain on how to deal with the subject of HIV/Aids in the classrooms, some learning materials on the subject are a real turn-off. The…
Fresh way to ban boredom from schools
By way of introduction to the book <i>Learner-based teaching</i>, authors Campbell and Kryszewska explain that it was developed in response to teaching conditions in Poland in…