Too much, too young

• Autores: David Whitebread, Sue Bingham
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2943, 2013, pág. 28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Whitebread and Bingham discuss the appropriate age of formal schooling for children. A long-running debate on this question has been reignited by a letter, signed by about 130 early childhood education experts. It called for an extension of informal, play-based preschool provision and for the start of formal schooling in England to be delayed until the age of 7, from the current effective start at age 4. This would bring it in line with the overwhelming evidence showing that starting school later is best, and the practice in many countries, such as Sweden and Finland. These countries have better academic achievement and child well-being, despite children not starting school until age 7.