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Philippa Gardom Hulme

Spark your students’ interest in science

December 10, 2015December 18, 2015Oxford Science Team

My daughter was indignant to be rewarded by her primary school for reading at home six times in a week. The pleasure from her books, she told me, was reward itself. This got me thinking. In school science, do we focus on the intrinsic rewards of the subject itself, or are extrinsic rewards – achieving […]

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