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The education system has to ensure children can remain in school, even when life around them is difficult. A child’s opportunities are determined long before they are old enough to make choices.
What happens to them at two years of age determines what is open to them at twelve years; what happens to them in a classroom dictates whether they will have choices later in life. If any one of these things is neglected, then there is a child somewhere who will suffer the consequences.
The articles in this issue of Learning Curve examine these challenges and more.
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How can we help students make sense of everyday observations to build a deeper scientific understanding of light? In ‘Thinking about light: Using a drawing-based assessment’, the author shows how inviting students to draw light paths can reveal hidden assumptions and strengthen scientific thinking. In ‘Thinking about light: Using a sequence of connected investigations’, the author shows how prompting students to connect ideas across investigations helps them bridge gaps between observation and explanation to build a coherent conceptual framework. Together, these articles show how classroom instruction can encourage students to use their own observations to construct, compare, and refine explanations of how light behaves.
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