Part 3
The author of the article “Schools are killing curiosity” is Wendy Berliner, a journalist of Education media. She argues that teachers should encourage questioning to foster the development of curiosity in the article. The Primary audience are educators and parents, while the secondary audience includes general reading public. Berliner’s purpose is to raise awareness of traditional education impacts students development of curiosity and creativity. The genre is a feature piece. Berliner employs ethos to persuade the audience, drawing on her education background and mentioning the book she wrote with Judith Judd called “How To Succeed At School” and “What Every Parent Should Know”. She also cites sources such as research studies that supported her arguments. For instance, she mentions research conducted by Suzan Engel, a professor of developmental psychology who studied children in a nursery school at Bristol. Children were taken away their toys and given cardboard boxes, tin cans, pots, pans, old phones, kettles, computers and plumping supplies. As a result children had a positive result of creativity and curiosity. This article was published in 2020, which demonstrates the effectiveness of Berliner’s research finding and Knowledge.
Part 4
” Where they found that the most curious children performed best. In a finding critical to tackling the stubborn achievement gap between poorer and richer children, disadvantage children had the strongest connection between curiosity and performance”. Berliner paragraph 4
” Children, full of questions about things that interest them, are learning not to ask them at school. Against a background of tests and targets, unscripted queries go mainly unanswered and learning opportunities are lost”. Berliner paragraph 2
” Children are born curious. The number of questions a toddler can ask can seem infinite- it is one of the critical methods humans adopt to learn”. Berliner paragraph 9
” But research from Suzan Engel, author of The Hungry Mind and a leading International authority on curiosity in children, finds questioning drops like a stone once children start school”. Berliner paragraph 10
” Dr Prachi Shah, a developmental and behavioural paediatrician at Mott and an assistance research scientist at the University of Michigan, says: Promoting curiosity in children, especially those from environments of economic disadvantange, may be an important under- recognised way to address the achievement gap”. Berliner paragraph 7
