Episode 8 Context as the third teacher

Dr Deborah Harcourt by Dr Deborah Harcourt

Mar 23, 201820:24Education

In this episode I explore the idea of moving away from "environment as the third teacher", to context as the third teacher and challenge the idea that environments for children need to be more of the same from a catalogu...

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