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For decades, cognitive education has debated whether cognitive skills should be taught separately from academic content or embedded within children's everyday learning.
Position learning helps children experience concepts, talk about them and think through different perspectives.
The Basic Concepts Foundation recently completed its fourth round of support visits to schools participating in the MEED project
17 September 2026 to 21 October 2026
Building the foundations for learning - Open for Registration
Basic Concepts Foundation has launched its first school-based Concept Builders intervention in Cape Town
Numbers are foundational – learners need to understand what numbers represent and how they are used in everyday life before moving to more complex number concepts.
Twenty years ago, our research identified the centrality of teachers to educational change.
Twenty years ago, the Basic Concepts Programme was simply a doctoral research project exploring an important question
Reflections from the first two training sessions highlight participants' growing understanding of mediated learning and its application in everyday practice.
The most important learning begins long before children enter school.
