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Nanmathi Manian; Wendy McColskey; Kim Benton; Noah Lipshie – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
School communities in both urban and rural settings need trauma-informed (TI) supports; however, the adversities experienced and access to student supports may be unique to rural school communities. In addition, the contextual challenges experienced by rural schools and communities, as well as the strengths that can be drawn from them, will…
Descriptors: Trauma, Rural Schools, Child Development, School Districts
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Zervigon-Hakes, Anita – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Describes materials mastery and symbolic development as two discrete but related processes that preschool children learn. Uses the preschool setting to identify the developmental stages of construction play. (AS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Dramatic Play, Learning Processes
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Darvizeh, Zhra; Spencer, Christopher – Environmental Education and Information, 1984
Demonstrates how three- and four-year-old children's (N=20) learning of a completely novel route across a city district is enhanced by an accompanying adult making the child aware of potential landmarks. The importance of permanent/ephemeral landmarks in the child's verbal and modelled-map accounts of the route and educational implications are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Environmental Education, Learning Processes, Locational Skills (Social Studies)
Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich – 1992
A study investigated the English language acquisition of three native Spanish-speaking children in a bilingual preschool, focusing on the spontaneous use of English when play-acting at being superhero figures from popular children's culture. The occurrence of this voice is contrasted with the children's use of Spanish for other types of play and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Influences
Minami, Masahiko, Ed.; Kennedy, Bruce P., Ed. – 1991
This collection of articles related to language issues and literacy and bilingual and multicultural education include the following: "Three Processes in the Child's Acquisition of Syntax" (Roger Brown and Ursula Bellugi); "Pre-School Children's Knowledge of English Phonology" (Charles Read); "Stages in Language Development and Reading Exposure"…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Influences