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Timothy Lynch – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book, now in its second edition, explores how physical education (PE) and learning through movement can be best enacted in schools in order to optimise children's wellbeing and subsequent academic learning. Drawing together extensive data from school communities around the globe, the author examines multiple dimensions of child health in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Well Being, Holistic Approach, Child Health
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Koreeda, Kiyoji, Ed.; Tsuge, Masayoshi, Ed.; Ikuta, Shigeru, Ed.; Dalton, Elizabeth Minchin, Ed.; Ewe, Linda Plantin, Ed. – IGI Global, 2023
Inclusive education remains a significant challenge in today's educational landscape, as K-12 classrooms and higher education institutions struggle to meet the diverse needs of all students. To address this pressing issue, "Developing Inclusive Environments in Education: Global Practices and Curricula," led by Kiyoji Koreeda, offers…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Rhodes, Igraine; Long, Michelle – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) guidance report is designed to support senior leaders in primary and secondary schools to make better-informed decisions about their behaviour strategies. It includes a number of practical examples of programmes and approaches that should be helpful in schools and classrooms where behaviour is generally…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Best Practices
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Simner, Julia; Harrold, Jenny; Creed, Harriet; Monro, Louise; Foulkes, Louise – Brain, 2009
We show that the neurological condition of synaesthesia--which causes fundamental differences in perception and cognition throughout a lifetime--is significantly represented within the childhood population, and that it manifests behavioural markers as young as age 6 years. Synaesthesia gives rise to a merging of cognitive and/or sensory functions…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Incidence, Graphemes, Identification
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Li, Yuen-Ling – Educational Action Research, 2008
Research literature has long indicated that action research may stimulate practitioners themselves to actively evaluate the quality of their practice. This study is designed to report the use of action research for the development of early years professional practice by analyzing the pre-project and the post-project video-filmed teaching events.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Literature, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Characteristics
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Inagaki, Kayoko; Hatano, Giyoo – Child Development, 1987
Results of two experiments on kindergarten children in Japan indicate that young children can, and often do, apply personification as an analogy to animate objects to generate a reasonable prediction. It was also found that children try to constrain the personification by using additional knowledge. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Wagner, Daniel A.; Spratt, Jennifer E. – Child Development, 1987
Results indicate specific and positive effects of Quranic schooling on serial memory but not on other memory or cognitive tasks. These findings replicate earlier reports that Quranic schooling affects specific (and not general) memory skills. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Memory
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Tunmer, William E. – Child Development, 1985
Acquisition of sentient-nonsentient distinction in 48 children between four- and seven-years-of-age occurred later than animate-inanimate distinction. The children's use of naturalistic or nonnaturalistic explanations depended on the logical nature of events in which objects were involved rather than familiarity with objects themselves. Ability to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
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O'Malley, Colleen J.; Blankemeyer, Maureen; Walker, Kathleen K.; Dellmann-Jenkins, Mary – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
There is increased interest by parents in communicating with their children about political violence. However, limited attention in the scholarly literature has focused on parent-child communication about war and terrorism. In response, the purpose of this study is to assess, within their respective ecological contexts, American and Northern Irish…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Parent Child Relationship, War, Terrorism
Besevegis, Elias; Neimark, Edith D. – 1987
Questions concerning the ontogeny of the planning process and its role in the regulation of behavior have been markedly absent from the literature. The present study examines the planning done during solitary play by middle-class children from four public nursery schools in Athens, Greece. One hundred preschool children in five age groups (42, 48,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Metacognition
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Hakimi-Manesh, Yahya; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1984
Examines the effects of an extra five minutes of interaction on the psychomotor and mental development of Iranian infant orphans largely deprived of opportunities to interact with caretakers and peers. Daily intervention continued for six weeks; effects were assessed after a 6-month interval. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Enrichment, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
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Mariani, M. C.; Ogborn, Jon – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Two questionnaires were given to 38 students (16-18 year olds), in which they were asked to classify a list of different conceptual entities by several ontological features. The results suggest the form of a fundamental "ontological space" and locate some scientific concepts in this space. (Author)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Adey, Philip – Research in Science Education, 1995
Presented a categorization of types of science education research, their possible contributions to cognitive science, and the potential of results from cognitive science for enriching the science education research accounts. Explored the relationship of an example of cognitive work to cognitive science. (15 references) (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Jackson, A. Lyn – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001
Deaf children with signing parents, nonnative signing deaf children, children from a hearing impaired unit, oral deaf children, and hearing controls were tested on theory of Mind (ToM) tasks and a British sign language receptive language test. Language ability correlated positively and significantly with ToM ability. Age underpinned the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Deafness
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Watts, Walter J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1985
To assess Feuerstein's Learning Potential Assessment Device's (LPAD) ability to identify deficient cognitive functions, Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices were administered to 176 elementary/junior high students--25 percent were rescored--and 12 complete LPAD reports from a university educational clinic were reanalyzed. Correlations were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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