Alex Griffiths – författare

Parents already contribute much to their children’s learning, and with comparatively little effort can do much more. It is now firmly established that where parents and teachers cooperate over children’s education, the effects on learning are remarkable. Originally published in 1987, this practical handbook describes how you can cooperate with your child’s teachers to help your child with reading, writing, mathematics and other curriculum areas. What matters is the approach to learning, rather than specific knowledge: enjoyment, interest and fun are the keynotes for success. This book will help all parents to help their children.

Children learn more from their parents in their first five years than they do from their schools in the next ten. In this respect, all parents are teachers. In most families, however, this teaching relationship loses priority when the child starts school.

Originally published in 1984, this book describes a highly successful venture in parent/teacher cooperation in children’s learning, which developed from a project set up in 1979 in inner London. Working closely with teachers, parents were encouraged to give regular help at home with their children’s reading. In the years following, PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) was widely implemented and led to great improvement in children’s reading and general motivation, and enthusiastic participation of parents in many areas of the curriculum.

The success of PACT at the time pointed to the need for a wider acceptance of parents as active participants in their children’s education. Parent, Teacher, Child is a handbook for the teacher interested in involving parents. In addition to the theoretical rationale for this approach, it offers practical advice, with illustrations drawn from a number of different schools, and information about how to set up and maintain such a scheme.

Parents already contribute much to their children’s learning, and with comparatively little effort can do much more. It is now firmly established that where parents and teachers cooperate over children’s education, the effects on learning are remarkable. Originally published in 1987, this practical handbook describes how you can cooperate with your child’s teachers to help your child with reading, writing, mathematics and other curriculum areas. What matters is the approach to learning, rather than specific knowledge: enjoyment, interest and fun are the keynotes for success. This book will help all parents to help their children.

Children learn more from their parents in their first five years than they do from their schools in the next ten. In this respect, all parents are teachers. In most families, however, this teaching relationship loses priority when the child starts school.

Originally published in 1984, this book describes a highly successful venture in parent/teacher cooperation in children’s learning, which developed from a project set up in 1979 in inner London. Working closely with teachers, parents were encouraged to give regular help at home with their children’s reading. In the years following, PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) was widely implemented and led to great improvement in children’s reading and general motivation, and enthusiastic participation of parents in many areas of the curriculum.

The success of PACT at the time pointed to the need for a wider acceptance of parents as active participants in their children’s education. Parent, Teacher, Child is a handbook for the teacher interested in involving parents. In addition to the theoretical rationale for this approach, it offers practical advice, with illustrations drawn from a number of different schools, and information about how to set up and maintain such a scheme.

In June of 1925, almost a hundred years ago, Werner Heisenberg spent ten days on the island of Heligoland - thanks to his hayfever.  This respite afforded him the time to write an article that would mark the beginning of the history of modern quantum theory. Two years later, in October of 1927, the fifth Solvay Conference, arguably the most famous gathering in the history of physics, took place in Brussels, bringing the riveting story of the origins of quantum mechanics to a close. During this crucial and relatively short period between 1925 and 1927, eight physicists from five countries developed a theory that would radically change the physical understanding of our world and would become the basis for almost all advanced technologies: transistors, lasers, light-emitting diodes, medical imaging, the electron microscope and much more.

The reader will travel through time from September 1924 to October 1927 and learn by way of monthly entries how quantum mechanics came into being, what the people involved experienced and thought in the context of the time they lived in, and how a unified whole slowly emerged from the interactions of these individuals. 

The book is aimed at laypeople who are fascinated by quantum mechanics and its history. They will learn that this theory, like Anita Berber, jazz or the invention of television, is a characteristic child of the 1920s.