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...creative power in action when grammar nests one idea within another, as in ‘John thinks, that Mary knows, how people suspected, his sister saw...’. A combinatorial grammar like this, has the potential to generate infinite well-formed sentences. A child doesn’t have an infinite amount of time to learn them, so they have to generalise and make predictions about the...

...write them down or express them creatively, to find role models, to clean up personal social media and to identify supportive groups and communities can all be of help. Gender biases are just one example of judgemental bias. You will go on to learn more about this in Week 5 on overcoming stigma and Week 6 on social and cultural dimensions of mental health in learning...

...write and count. There are also distinctive cultural additions to curriculum: children in a rural school in Uruguay, for example, may learn how to milk a cow, primary school children in Vietnam perhaps learn etiquette, and children in Russia traditionally learn ballroom dancing. Perhaps when you were a child in primary school you learned something that was distinctive to...