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Unique Child Health: Spiral of learning
Nursery World,
8 May 2008
The build-up of knowledge through successive experiences can be well used for healthy living, say Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and Gill Roberts.
Jerome Bruner referred in 1960 to the need of education practitioners to respect the ways of thought of the growing child. He developed this idea further in 1977, proposing that any subject could be taught to a child at any age, provided the information was presented in a form the child could engage with. This is the foundation of one of Bruner's major educational concepts - the spiral curriculum. Bruner recognised that knowledge and skills are acquired by...
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