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Anna Backman – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore a theoretical idea in relation to a body of empirical material from a reading activity involving a picturebook on shadow. The theoretical idea, sprung from variation theory, entails children's discernment through synchronic simultaneity as a key to their ability to imagine. To explore this idea, an analysis…
Descriptors: Imagination, Picture Books, Preschool Children, Learning Activities
Natasa Ganea; Caspar Addyman; Jiale Yang; Andrew Bremner – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated whether infants encode better the features of a briefly occluded object if its movements are specified simultaneously by vision and audition than if they are not (data collected: 2017-2019). Experiment 1 showed that 10-month-old infants (N = 39, 22 females, White-English) notice changes in the visual pattern on the object…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Multisensory Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Azadmanesh, Saeed; Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This study aims to critique the concept of active learning in childhood education based on Hegelian Bildung. We have defined childhood education from the perspective of Hegel's Bildung in The Phenomenology of Spirit. We describe childhood education as a 'primary Bildung' having the aim of 'entering into the conceptual world'. This aim indicates…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Philosophy, Phenomenology, Language Usage
Kimberly Maslin; Karen Murcia; Susan Blackley; Geoff Lowe – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Fostering young children's creativity is a desired outcome of STEM learning experiences. Such experiences often incorporate hands-on activities that encourage agency, curiosity, and experimentation. While educators generally have a good understanding of how to nurture creativity within a physical learning environment, less is known about…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Creativity, Electronic Learning, Learning Experience
Briitta Ollonen; Marjaana Kangas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This research focuses on exploring teacher motivational scaffolding and preschoolers motivational triggers in a playful learning project conducted in a Finnish preschool context. The aim of playful learning was to promote preschoolers' multiliteracy and digital skills in a news-making project. The participants were 17 preschoolers and their…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Student Motivation
Yong Ju Jung; Heather Toomey Zimmerman – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
Children's multiple interests intersect with their participation in informal learning practices in dynamic ways. Using a theoretical framework illustrating interest as a multifaceted construct that has different forms and a range of scope and durability, this study investigates how children's situational interests and individual interests are…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Museums, Science Education, Children
David F. Lancy – Oxford University Press, 2024
In "Learning Without Lessons," David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Independent Study, Play
Cutting, Chelsea; Lowrie, Thomas – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Learning progressions have become increasingly prevalent in mathematics education as they offer a fine-grain map of possible learning pathways a child may take within a particular domain. However, there is an opportunity to build upon this research in ways that consider learning from multiple perspectives. Many current forms of learning…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Child Development, Play, Learning Trajectories
Samuelsson, Robin – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
There is a renewed scientific interest in the role of childhood in human evolution, pointing to the explorative phase of a human's life history that shapes how children learn and develop. This study presents a synthesis from evolutionary sciences that considers biases in childhood learning through activities in play, exploration, and social…
Descriptors: Play, Learning, Discovery Learning, Interaction
Tess Allegra Forest; Sarah A. McCormick; Lauren Davel; Nwabisa Mlandu; Michal R. Zieff; Khula South Africa Data Collection Team; Dima Amso; Kirsty A. Donald; Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam – Developmental Science, 2025
Caregivers play an outsized role in shaping early life experiences and development, but we often lack mechanistic insight into "how" exactly caregiver behavior scaffolds the neurodevelopment of specific learning processes. Here, we capitalized on the fact that caregivers differ in how predictable their behavior is to ask if infants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Role
Yanhua Shen; Benedict Dyson; Seunghyun Baek; Donal Howley; Fan Zhang – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the student's experiences of social and emotional learning in a community-based youth soccer program grounded in the hybridization of the teaching personal and social responsibility model and the cooperative learning model. Methods: This research was guided by a case study design. Qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Athletics, Youth Programs, Team Sports
Juan Li; Qian-Qian Li; Shu-Qi Wang; Zhen Jin; Xiao-Xiao Wang; Ni-Ming Sun; Hai-Xian Li; Xudan Ye – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Spatial ability is a significant component of mathematical ability and a foundation for children to master mathematical knowledge. Although many studies have confirmed that technology can enhance children's learning, few have explored the use of technology in the area of children's spatial learning. In this study, we adopted a paradigm for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Sarah Probine; Rachael Burke; Jo Perry; Joanne Alderson; Yo Heta-Lensen; Fi McAlevey; Helen Wrightson – Early Childhood Folio, 2024
Children's inquiry is an approach where tamariki explore and research their own questions and curiosities over sustained periods of time with the support of their kaiako. This article explores findings from research examining how this approach has been interpreted and enacted by early childhood kaiako in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education
Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde; Lucy B. Whitmore; Bianca Westhoff; Kathryn L. Mills – npj Science of Learning, 2022
The brain undergoes profound development across childhood and adolescence, including continuous changes in brain morphology, connectivity, and functioning that are, in part, dependent on one's experiences. These neurobiological changes are accompanied by significant changes in children's and adolescents' cognitive learning. By drawing from studies…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Learning, Brain
Elizabeth A. Ethridge; Adrien D. Malek-Lasater; Kyong-Ah Kwon – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early childhood teachers routinely facilitate play-based learning experiences in their physical classrooms; however, the pivot to virtual teaching platforms created a barrier for providing age appropriate, play-based learning opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are few studies exploring how to promote play in the virtual classroom or…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers, Virtual Classrooms