FROM THE EDITOR

Abstract

What exactly is reinforcing learning? This was a question we asked ourselves before we went ahead with the theme. The vision that immediately springs to the mind when we talk about reinforcing learning is piles of homework, mostly in maths and language, which as students, we used to do without thinking very much, heads bent and intent only upon finishing, not learning or applying the mind. The textbook was central to this approach - in maths, for example, we looked at the sums that had been ‘worked out’ at the back of the chapter and followed the prescription to a T