A new study from Çukurova University published in ECNU Review of Education shows that hands-on science activities effectively increase preschool children's motivation for science learning. This quasi-experimental research, involving 25 children aged 60–72 months, found that children who participated in hands-on science experiments over five weeks showed significantly higher science motivation compared to those in traditional classroom settings, with no gender differences in the positive effects.

What challenges do regional labour markets in Vietnam and in Hesse share? And what can each side learn from the other’s solutions? Questions like these will be at the heart of the discussions of this month’s conference of the European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring, which brings together more than 100 experts from Europe, Asia and Africa at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Adolescence is a period when teenagers may be experimenting with risky or rule-breaking behaviors such as skipping school, drinking, lying, or staying out past their curfew. When parents find out, their natural response is often to warn their child: Continue with the behavior and you’ll incur stricter rules, less freedom, and the loss of privileges. But why do some teens heed the warnings while others become even more defiant? A team of US and Israeli researchers discovered that the way teenagers receive their parents’ warnings depends less on the message itself and more on whether they see their parents as genuinely living up their own purported values. Yet to stop the risky behavior one more thing is esssential — parents must try to understand their child's feelings and reasoning and engange in “perspective taking.”