Engagement key to active learning – 200 children speak out

Kindergarten-aged children enjoy learning much more than children who have started school according to a new Griffith University study published in the Australian Journal of Education.
Researchers from the Griffith Institute for Educational Research interviewed more than 200 Australian children aged between three and eight about how they liked to learn.
Lead author Associate Professor Beverley Flückiger says children’s loss of motivation as they enter school is concerning as a positive outlook on learning is critical to success.
“More needs to be done to maintain the highly positive dispositions towards learning that children bring with them when they commence school,’’ she said.
The researchers found that younger children expressed a sense of agency and self-efficacy in their learning while many school-aged children described learning as a process that requires them to be compliant and passive.
They also found that most children craved work and learning processes that gained and kept their interest, with most seeking

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