Part 4 – The article “Schools are killing curiosity” by Wendy Berliner is a feature piece. Berliner is a credible author because she wrote a book about ways that educators and parents should do to support their children at school. She spent most of her career as an education journalist, in 2020 Berliner was awarded for outstanding Educationl Jounalism. The primary audiences are educators, other audiences are parents because they are responsible for the children’s education. The author is ignoring kids because the message is not directed to them, it’s for the people who can make a change to their education.The author wrote this piece the change something in the education system. the author want school to give students a chance to explore around them by asking questions. The author gave the reader research and data that supported her main idea. The article was also appealing because we all where kids and had many question about everything, she shows the importance of curiosity.
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Wendy Berliner ,“Promoting curiosity in children, especially those from environments of economic disadvantage, may be an important, under-recognised way to address the achievement gap. Promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasising more when we look at academic achievement.”
Wendy Berliner , “School kills curiosity. When do children get to ask questions about things that interest them? As soon as they are at primary school they have to shut up and learn. It’s not the fault of teachers. They have so many targets to meet.”
Wendy Berliner, “Children should be prompted and encouraged to ask questions even though that can be challenging for the teacher,” he says. “We do need to find some time for questions during the day. There is not enough time in schools for creativity and following up on curiosity.”
