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Preschool Teachers' Views on Sensory Education
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Saadet Bartan; Fatma Alisinanoglu – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
The aim of this study is to reveal preschool teachers' views on sensory education. In the study, phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods, was selected. The study group of the research consists of 20 preschool teachers working in a city in Turkey in the 2022-2023 academic year. Maximum diversity sampling, one of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Education, Sensory Experience
Fostering Somatic Movement Literacy with Young Children
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Buono, Alexia – Research in Dance Education, 2022
Somatic movement literacy is when one is literate in Body, making meaning from somatic experiences. It is not just developing an understanding about the body, objectively. Oriented around somatics and embodied cognition, this article will present a framework of somatic movement literacy developed by Paul Linden to be mapped onto…
Descriptors: Human Body, Motion, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Impaired Performance on See-Know Tasks amongst Children with Autism: Evidence of Specific Difficulties with Theory of Mind or Domain-General Task Factors?
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Lind, Sophie E.; Bowler, Dermot M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
It is widely assumed that children with autism have a diminished understanding of the perception-knowledge relationship, as a specific manifestation of a theory of mind (ToM) impairment. However, such a conclusion may not be justified on the basis of previous studies, which have suffered from significant methodological weaknesses. The current…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Perceptual Development, Autism, Research Methodology
Prevention of ADHD Related Problems: A Universal Preschool Program
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Christiansen, Hanna; Hirsch, Oliver; König, Anika; Steinmayr, Ricarda; Roehrle, Bernd – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: Early onset of behavioral disorders is predictive of long term adverse outcomes. There are some indicated and selective early prevention programs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most common behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence. The purpose of this paper is to present a universal preschool…
Descriptors: Prevention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Access to Education, Preschool Education
Shared Challenges in Object Perception for Robots and Infants
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Fitzpatrick, Paul; Needham, Amy; Natale, Lorenzo; Metta, Giorgio – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Robots and humans receive partial, fragmentary hints about the world's state through their respective sensors. These hints--tiny patches of light intensity, frequency components of sound, etc.--are far removed from the world of objects which we feel and perceive so effortlessly around us. The study of infant development and the construction of…
Descriptors: Infants, Robotics, Visual Perception, Perceptual Development
Learning Benefits of Self-Controlled Knowledge of Results in 10-Year-Old Children
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Chiviacowsky, Suzete; Wulf, Gabriele; Laroque de Medeiros, Franklin; Kaefer, Angelica; Tani, Go – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the learning benefits of self-controlled knowledge of results (KR) would generalize to children. Specifically, the authors chose 10-year-old children representative of late childhood. The authors used a task that required the children to toss beanbags at a target. One group received KR…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Scores, Perceptual Development, Children