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Valerie Critten; Hannah Hagon; Melike Aslan Unlu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
In light of current developments, there is an increasing effort to integrate computing-oriented activities into the education of children as young as two years old. Although the computing strand is not officially addressed in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (DfES, 2024), a small number of early years teachers in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Computation, Problem Solving
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Yuzhen Dong; Kate Nation – First Language, 2025
Emotion words allow us to identify, describe and regulate our emotional states. Emotion vocabulary grows through childhood, but little research has considered emotion words in the context of children's written language. To address this gap, we used a cross-corpus developmental approach to chart the emergence of emotion words in children's reading…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Language Acquisition, Written Language, Emotional Response
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Fatma Bayraktaroglu; Tugce Akyol – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
It is considered necessary to support the participation of children socially, and media tools having a significant effect on individuals today should reflect child participation. The aim of this study was to examine the right to participate in cartoons prepared for primary school children. The study was conducted with a descriptive survey model.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Animation, Childrens Television
Bers, Marina Umaschi; Strawhacker, Amanda; Sullivan, Amanda – OECD Publishing, 2022
Computer programming and associated Computational Thinking (CT) skills are essential to thriving in today's academic and professional world. There has been a growing focus globally on fostering CT skills as well as on introducing computer programming concepts and languages beginning as early as kindergarten and pre-primary school. Tools,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Computation, Critical Thinking, Early Experience
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Bezuidenhout, Hanrie S.; Henning, Elizabeth – Pythagoras, 2022
The current quantitative study, a naturalistic field experiment, was conducted in a public primary school in Soweto, Johannesburg, with the objective to examine how children's achievement on four assessments at the beginning of Grade R, namely their numeracy, their mathematics-specific vocabulary, their executive functions, and their logical…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Karakaya Cirit, Didem – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
This paper analyzed Scratch projects developed by undergraduate students. The sample consisted of 22 child development students (18 women and four men) in the 2018-2019 academic year. The study adopted an action research design within the scope of a course titled "Teaching Science and Mathematics in Preschool Education." The research was…
Descriptors: Coding, Preschool Education, Computer Science Education, Computer Software