Counterfactual reasoning, the capacity to entertain “what might have been” scenarios, is central to understanding how children interpret and learn from their experiences. This field explores the ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of researchers in England reported on a series of experiments in which they showed that very young children could, in the context of play, solve logic problems that they ...

Two linked motivations inspired Ellen Buxton's research study: she wanted pupils to make connections between British and French history and she wanted to explore the potential of counter-factual ...