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This fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children learn and how best to teach them. In particular it turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children; and it throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. The second edition of this bestselling text includes a new introduction by Judy Dunn. * Fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children. * Turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children. * Throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. * The authors' evidence is the children's own conversations which are quoted extensively and are delightful. * The second edition of this bestselling text includes an introduction by Judy Dunn.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 264
Edition: Revised
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 03 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0631236155
ISBN 13: 9780631236153
Martin Hughes is Professor in the Psychology of Education and Head of School at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. He has researched and written widely on children s learning of mathematics, reading and computers, on the relationship between home and school, and on the role of parents in their children s education. Between 1991 and 1997 he directed the ESRC research programme on Innovation and Change in Education: The Quality of Teaching and Learning . He is the author or editor of several books, including Parents and their Children's Schools (with Wikeley and Nash, Blackwell Publishers, 1994), Perceptions of Teaching and Learning (1994), Progression in Learning (1995) and Teaching and Learning in Changing Times (with Desforges and Mitchell, 2000).