Teaching Kids To Think

People Fixing the World

• Episode: Teaching Kids To Think
• Website: People Fixing the World
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p04grdbc.rss
• Duration: 00:16:51
• Published: 2016-12-10 04:00

Giving children lessons in how to think and learn for themselves can lead to dramatic improvements in results, according to education researchers. World Hacks meets children learning these “meta-cognition” techniques through philosophy lessons and juggling and looks at the difficulties in implementing the system. Presented by Sahar Zand. Image caption: Child with hand up in class / Image credit: AP