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toxic culture?

We live in an age where choice has never been greater, but how does this affect what and how children learn?

Former headteacher and expert on children's language and literacy Sue Palmer, has spent the last three years researching the influence of contemporary culture on children's development – particularly their capacity to learn.

Her seminar, entitled ‘Toxic Childhood: How Contemporary Culture is Damaging Child Development’ is sure to be popular at Education Show 2006, at Birmingham’s NEC next month, where she’ll be discussing an overview of her findings.

‘I will be debating such issues as whether failure to hit Government targets may be partly due to changes in children's ability to learn, what's behind the current explosion in developmental and behavioural disorders, what changes in children's lives over the last 25 years may be affecting cognition and behaviour and how schools, parents and society can 'detoxify' contemporary childhood.'

Her seminar will be part of a packed programme of events, launches and debates at this year’s show, to be held from March 9-11.

Launches include the ‘Personal Relationships’ cards from Colorcards, designed to help students understand and discuss platonic and physical relationships.

The cards feature the full range of relationships from parental and familial, through professional and friendship, to same-sex and both-sex meeting, dating and having sex, helpful for adolescents and adults with learning disabilities or Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Other major sessions include the great education debate on curriculum versus creativity.

To register for your free Show entry ticket - visit www.education-show.com or call 0870 429 4580.