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Chronoula Voutsina 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):193-214
This study analysed the different types of arithmetic knowledge that young children utilise when solving a multiple-step addition
task. The focus of the research was on the procedural and conceptual changes that occur as children develop their overall
problem solving approach. Combining qualitative case study with a micro-genetic approach, clinical interviews were conducted
with ten 5–6-year-old children. The aim was to document how children combine knowledge of addition facts, calculation procedures
and arithmetic concepts when solving a multiple-step task and how children’s application of different types of knowledge and
overall solving approach changes and develops when children engage with solving the task in a series of problem solving sessions.
The study documents children’s pathways towards developing a more effective and systematic approach to multiple-step tasks
through different phases of their problem solving behaviour. The analysis of changes in children’s overt behaviour reveals
a dynamic interplay between children’s developing representation of the task, their improved procedures and gradually their
more explicit grasp of the conceptual aspects of their strategy. The findings provide new evidence that supports aspects of
the “iterative model” hypothesis of the interaction between procedural and conceptual knowledge and highlight the need for
educational approaches and tasks that encourage and trigger the interplay of different types of knowledge in young children’s
arithmetic problem solving. 相似文献
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Fran C. Blumberg Kristen P. Bierwirth Allison J. Schwartz 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(2):101-104
A commonly accepted belief is that the violence depicted in television programs, particularly cartoons, has a negative impact
on young children’s behavior. However, young children may be less inclined to emulate violent actions seen on television than
currently thought. Research indicates that young children have limited comprehension of television content but relatively
sophisticated moral reasoning. Children’s understanding of the immorality of violence on television and the distinction between
reality and make-believe may mediate these effects, as may the comic aspect of cartoons they view. We review current research
concerning the effects of cartoon violence on children’s moral understanding and behavior to with the goal of helping early
childhood educators and parents make informed decisions about children’s television viewing. 相似文献
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The selection of books to read to young children matters enormously in the role books play for enriching children’s lives.
This paper reviews the scientific evidence for the appropriate selection of books, and argues that care in selecting books
targeted to children’s developing skills will enhance the power and the pleasures of reading to young children. 相似文献
4.
This paper examines important factors in maximizing children’s experiential learning in the context of inquiry-based children’s
museums. Learning is understood as situated in physical, social, and interactive context that is best achieved when children
have opportunities to engage in play-based inquiry. Recommendations for maximizing children’s learning in museums, supporting
children’s interactions with peers and adults, and offering affordances for children’s play are discussed. 相似文献
5.
This article explores how children can learn about environmental sciences through place-based education and children’s literature.
Recent studies suggest that there is a lack of environmental science knowledge among citizens of all ages. Scholars and educators
recommend introducing young children to the places in which they live to create an impact on how they will view and respect
the natural world as adults. Selection and use of developmentally appropriate and scientifically accurate literature can be
an effective tool to help children understand their place in and connections to the natural world. Guidelines for selecting
place-based literature are presented using the Midwest United States as an example. Twelve children’s books are recommended
and reviewed. 相似文献
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Children’s picture books dealing with the topic of child sexual abuse appeared in the 1980s with the aim of addressing the
need for age-appropriate texts to teach sexual abuse prevention concepts and to provide support for young children who may
be at risk of or have already experienced sexual abuse. Despite the apparent potential of children’s picture books to convey
child sexual abuse prevention concepts, very few studies have addressed the topic of child sexual abuse in children’s literature.
This article critically examines a selection of 15 picture books (published in the US, Canada and Australia) for children
aged 3–8 years dealing with this theme. It makes use of an established set of evaluative criteria to conduct an audit of the
books’ content and applies techniques of literary discourse analysis to explain how these picture books satisfy criteria for
child sexual abuse prevention. The analysis is used as a way to understand the discourses available to readers, both adults
and children, on the topic of child sexual abuse. Key themes in the books include children’s empowerment and agency, and the
need for persistence and hope. 相似文献
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Mathematics problem solving provides a means for obtaining a view of young children’s understanding of mathematics as they
move through the early childhood concept development sequence. Assessment information can be obtained through observations
and interviews as children develop problem solutions. Examples of preschool, kindergarten, and primary grade children’s approaches
to problem solving are provided in the article. Prekindergarten and kindergarten age children discover problems during play.
For example, they figure out how to use informal measurement to use construction materials such as unit blocks and Lego to
build a desired building or make a desired object. Moldable materials such as clay and play dough provided shape experiences.
The daily sequence of activities builds on their concept of time. Primary grade children solve adult- and child-generated
problems. They may use manipulatives and/or drawings to generate problem solutions prior to using symbols and notation. Teacher
and/or student devised rubrics can be used to guide evaluation. 相似文献
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Katherine Becker 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(2):107-114
The purpose of this study was to explore patronage and usage of the children’s section of a public library. Patrons of the
children’s section of a public library in a small Northern Arizona city were observed for a total of 24 h over 12 sessions.
Analytic induction was used to formulate categories based on field notes made during these observations. An observation of
a story time session was also conducted. Data from an interview with a librarian was triangulated with observational data.
In terms of patronage, the clear majority of parents/adult caregivers accompanying a child or children to the children’s section
were observed to be female and speaking English. In terms of usage, the following three categories of early learning were
identified from the data: early literacy learning; learning how to use a library; and other developmentally appropriate learning.
Study results offer insight into both the role of females in the intergenerational transmission of literacy and the rich learning
young children experience at the library. At a time of library cutbacks and closures across the United States, this study
speaks to the continued relevance of the children’s section of the public library in providing free early learning experiences
during the pivotal birth to five age range. 相似文献
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Zheng Lin 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,37(4):279-287
This paper reports on a study of interactive dynamic assessment undertaken by children learning English listening and speaking
as a Foreign Language in a kindergarten. It investigates how an interactive dynamic assessment could be designed to assess
young English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners, what information such an interactive dynamic assessment may generate about
the language program and the participating children, and how such information may promote children’s EFL learning. Instead
of being context-independent and solely form-focused, this interactive dynamic assessment is contextualised within an English
intervention program and incorporated with a pre-formulated set of supportive mediations for the participating children. The
study shows this interactive dynamic assessment differs from traditional non-dynamic assessments in that it includes the assessor’s
mediation and thereby generates the information about the participating children’s needs for and potential responses to mediation.
It also demonstrates the potential of an interactive dynamic assessment in promoting children’s EFL learning and supporting
teaching EFL. 相似文献
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Eleni Moschovaki Sara Meadows Anthony D. Pellegrini 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(4):405-420
This study examines how teachers’ use of affective strategies (voice intonation, dramatization, personal involvement comments)
during the reading and discussion of books influence young children’s affective reactions (dramatization, personal engagement,
language play comments). Twenty kindergarten teachers read four books, two fiction and two information ones (narrative/expository
text).
We found significant differences in both teachers’ affective presentation and young children’s affective reactions between
fiction and information books, between the two fiction books but not between the narrative and expository text. A strong bi-directional
relationship was found between teachers’ affective presentation of stories and young children’s affective reactions. In particular,
teachers’ personal involvement comments prompted children’s personal engagement reactions, teachers’ reenactment was followed
by children’s imitations of such reenactments and teachers’ voice intonation elicited children’s personal engagement comments.
On the other hand, children’s use of paralinguistic cues and personal engagement comments reinforced teachers’ use of voice
intonation and personal involvement comments. Finally, text features, such as rhyming, were followed by children’s language
play. 相似文献
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Susanne A. Denham Hideko H. Bassett Katherine Zinsser 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(3):137-143
Young children’s emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and experience when necessary, and knowledge
of their own and other’s emotions—is crucial for social and academic (i.e., school) success. Thus, it is important to understand
the mechanisms of how young children develop emotional competence. Both parents and teachers are considered as important socializers
of emotion, providing children experiences that promote or deter the development of emotional competence. However, compared
to parents, early childhood teachers’ roles in socializing young children’s emotional competence have not been examined. Based
on the findings from research on parental socialization of emotion, in this theoretical review we explore possible teacher
roles in the development of young children’s emotional competence. Additionally, we suggest future research focusing on early
childhood teacher socialization of emotion, and discuss theoretical and practical benefits of such research. 相似文献
12.
Atom Surprise: Using Theatre in Primary Science Education 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Early exposure to science may have a lifelong effect on children’s attitudes towards science and their motivation to learn
science in later life. Out-of-class environments can play a significant role in creating favourable attitudes, while contributing
to conceptual learning. Educational science theatre is one form of an out-of-class environment, which has received little
research attention. This study aims to describe affective and cognitive learning outcomes of watching such a play and to point
to connections between theatrical elements and specific outcomes. “Atom Surprise” is a play portraying several concepts on
the topic of matter. A mixed methods approach was adopted to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of children (grades 1–6)
from two different school settings who watched the play. Data were gathered using questionnaires and in-depth interviews.
Analysis suggested that in both schools children’s knowledge on the topic of matter increased after the play with younger
children gaining more conceptual knowledge than their older peers. In the public school girls showed greater gains in conceptual
knowledge than boys. No significant changes in students’ general attitudes towards science were found, however, students demonstrated
positive changes towards science learning. Theatrical elements that seemed to be important in children’s recollection of the
play were the narrative, props and stage effects, and characters. In the children’s memory, science was intertwined with the
theatrical elements. Nonetheless, children could distinguish well between scientific facts and the fictive narrative. 相似文献
13.
Angela K. Salmon 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(5):457-461
Conscious of the interplay between nature and nurture in determining a child’s individuality and success in life, the author
embarked a group of teachers in an action research project towards nurturing a culture of thinking in young children. Considering
the positive effects of routines in early learning experiences, the research consisted in implementing thinking routines to
engage young children’s minds in thinking activities. The study took place in two Reggio-inspired schools where participating
teachers documented children’s work as part of their teaching. The documentation was a key element to make children’s thinking
visible as they installed the culture and language of thinking in their classrooms. The study found that thinking routines
build up positive attitudes about thinking and learning. By re-visiting their documented work children developed metacognitive
and critical thinking skills which make them more alert to situations that call for thinking. 相似文献
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Karin I. E. Dahlin 《Reading and writing》2011,24(4):479-491
This study examines the relationship between working memory and reading achievement in 57 Swedish primary-school children
with special needs. First, it was examined whether children’s working memory could be enhanced by a cognitive training program,
and how the training outcomes would relate to their reading development. Next, it was explored how differential aspects of
working memory are related to children’s reading outcomes. The working memory training yielded effects, and these effects
appeared beneficial to children’s reading comprehension development. Working memory measures were found to be related with
children’s word reading and reading comprehension. The results show that working memory can be seen as a crucial factor in
the reading development of literacy among children with special needs, and that interventions to improve working memory may
help children becoming more proficient in reading comprehension. 相似文献
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This study examines young children’s ideas about natural science phenomena and explores possibilities in starting investigations
in kindergarten from their ideas. Given the possibilities inherent in how young children make sense of their experiences,
we believe it is critical to take children’s perspectives into consideration when designing any activities, and ideally, to
design activities from their perspectives and understandings. Specifically, this research focuses on 5- and 6-year old children’s explanations of
rainbows, and there are three main findings. First, our analysis demonstrates that opportunities to discuss their ideas revealed
children’s different perceptions of the phenomena of rainbows. Secondly, this research emphasizes that peer-to-peer interaction
in the co-construction of science concepts provided support to the children to learn from, and with, each other. Third, children’s initial explanations provided the teacher-researcher (second author) with a starting point
to scaffold her teaching from. Although rainbows are quite an abstract topic to try to reproduce in the classroom, the children
demonstrated their often sophisticated understandings of natural science phenomena, as well as their creative ideas as related
to rainbows. In order to foster an appreciation of themes in natural science, it is crucial to build from what children already
know and can do, and to use these emergent theories and considerations in designing curriculum. Thus, we draw implications
for the importance of teaching science at the early childhood level and for using children’s ideas as starting points in planning
instruction. 相似文献
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Marilyn Fleer 《Research in Science Education》2009,39(2):281-306
In recent times there has been an enormous interest in Vygotsky’s writing on conceptual development, particularly his insights
on the differences between everyday and scientific thinking. In drawing upon cultural–historical theory, this paper seeks
to examine the relations between everyday concepts and scientific concepts within playful contexts, such as preschools, with
a view to better understanding how very young children develop conceptual understandings in science. This paper presents an
overview of a study which sought to map the transformation and appropriation of scientific concepts within two early childhood
settings. Approximately ten weeks of data gathering took place, with video recordings, field notes, photographic documentation,
and child and teacher interviews for recording child concept formation within these naturalistic settings. The findings indicate
that when teacher programs are more oriented towards concepts rather than materials, children’s play is focused on conceptual
connections. Importantly, the study showed that: It was possible to map the multiple and dynamic levels or stratas of thinking
that a child or group of children may exhibit within play-based contexts; An analysis of ‘unorganised heaps’ and ‘complexive
thinking’ evident in conceptually or materially oriented play-based programs can be determined; the dialectical relations
between everyday concepts and scientific concepts in play-based programs can be understood; and greater understanding about
the nature of concept formation in situated playful contexts have been possible. 相似文献
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The Ministry of Education and Culture in Zimbabwe has introduced an intervention into the school curricula to complement the
already existing mechanisms in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The literature in this programme is said to be designed to develop
children’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS and to maximise both individual and community commitment to the safest protective behaviour
possible. This paper argues that despite the Ministry’s efforts there is a dearth of such literature which would depict human
relations and experiences in the context of HIV/AIDS in the corpus of Zimbabwean children’s literature in schools. It proposes
that more fiction about HIV/AIDS could effectively complement the current non-fictional texts used in most Zimbabwean schools.
This paper seeks therefore, to clarify the need for fictional narratives in which the disease plays a part since they will
provide the main context in which young children learn to cope with the realities associated with HIV/AIDS through education.
It posits that Zimbabwean children’s literature should also depict the conceptual framework within which health, human interaction
and sexuality are understood in relation to the epidemic.
Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi is with the department of English and Communication, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She teaches
Renaissance and 20th century English literature and autobiography. A holder of a Master of Arts degree in English from the
University of Zimbabwe, her research interests include children’s literature and autobiography. Currently, she is writing
a book on Zimbabwean female (auto) biographies.
Juliet Sylvia Pasi holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe. She teaches Communication and
African literature in the department of English and Communication at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Currently, she
is researching on aspects of orality in Zimbabwean children’s literature and the mediation of gender identities in African
literature. 相似文献
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This study was conducted in a Reggio inspired child care classroom of 4-year olds where the fundamental principles of Reggio
Emilia preschools are interpreted for a Canadian context. Qualitative case study methodology was employed to investigate how
social interaction plays a role in young children’s learning processes. Drawing on social constructivist views of children’s
learning and socialization, children’s discussions and interactions within a preschool learning group were examined. Examination
of children’s discourse is valuable not only for understanding individual and group learning experiences but also for illuminating
children’s agency and their active roles in their own learning. The study focused on the in-depth study of six children’s
activities during a ‘Shades of Pink’ project. As the project, ‘Shades of Pink’ unfolded, the children faced cognitive conflict while they were talking about the details of Monet’s painting, but worked
toward building common understandings. In this study, children are considered to be meaning makers and active participants
in their own learning processes. In addition, the relationships between children became a context in which the co-construction
of theories, interpretations and various understandings of reality took place. Small group work became a basis for creating
unity, a space in which thoughts took shape as well as a way to compare interpretations; with the result that new thoughts
and meanings were produced. 相似文献
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The question posed in the current study is whether software alone is a sufficient tool for supporting young children’s emergent
writing. We researched the effect of reading an electronic book (e-book) on kindergarten children’s emergent word writing
with and without adult support. Ninety-six 5 to 6 years old children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families were randomly
assigned to one of three groups (32 children each): (1) independently reading the e-book; (2) reading the e-book with adult
support; (3) receiving the regular kindergarten program (control). Each intervention group received four e-book reading sessions.
The children’s emergent literacy was assessed before and after the intervention and included letter-name recognition, phonological
awareness and emergent word writing. Reading the e-book with adult assistance supported the children’s phonological awareness
and emergent word writing more significantly than reading the e-book without support and more than the control group. Reading
the e-book without adult support did not differ from the control group. Furthermore, the children’s initial emergent literacy
level and reading the ebook with adult assistance contributed the most to the children’s emergent word writing. Educational
implications are discussed. 相似文献