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...2 What is brain-based learning and teaching? - Neuroscientists now have more sophisticated ways of examining living brains than was ever possible before. It is now possible to obtain images of the brain that show activity as it occurs. The importance of the first years of life has always been recognised by early years practitioners but the new information about the brain...

...2 years 6 months, as they made the transition from the ‘Toddler’ room to the Nursery at their Children and Family Centre (Medhurst, 2014). She interviewed the boys’ mother, family worker and new nursery worker, and found that pre-transition visits to the nursery with the boys and their family worker, had been valuable opportunities to listen to their needs and...

...2 I think I am pretty good at interviews once I get in the room, but I am usually a bit nervous before them. 3 It depends a bit on the interviewers. I am usually nervous when we start, but if they settle me in, I can give a good account of myself. 4 It’s a bit hit and miss. I have had some interviews where I think I have presented myself pretty well and others where I...

...2 The age of criminal responsibility - You have already looked at the sometimes blurred boundaries dividing adulthood from childhood. The big question you’ve been building up to is, of course, ‘what is the age of criminal responsibility?’. In other words, at what age can someone be arrested and charged with a crime that will be prosecuted in a criminal court? [This...