Hey teacher, don't leave them kids alone: Action is better for memory than reading

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2017, Pages

  Hainselin, Mathieu ^a   Picard, Laurence ^b   Manolli, Patrick ^b   Vankerkore Candas, Sophie ^a   Bourdin, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b Université Bourgogne Franche Comté ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Action; Education; Enactment; Memory; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018644812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00325     Document Type: Article

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