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Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2012
Students today may have less time for free play, but new research suggests their imaginations have actually sharpened compared with those of children two decades ago. In an analysis published in May 2011 in the "Creativity Research Journal" and posted online in May, researchers from Case Western University in Cleveland found elementary school…
Descriptors: Creativity, Play, Elementary School Students, Imagination
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Kamii, Constance; Russell, Kelly A. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2012
Based on Piaget's theory of logico-mathematical knowledge, 126 students in grades 2-5 were asked 6 questions about elapsed time. The main reason found for difficulty with elapsed time is children's inability to coordinate hierarchical units (hours and minutes). The educational implications drawn are that students must be encouraged to think about…
Descriptors: Piagetian Theory, Cognitive Development, Time, Time Perspective
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McCormack, Teresa; Hanley, Mary – Cognitive Development, 2011
Four- and five-year-olds completed two sets of tasks that involved reasoning about the temporal order in which events had occurred in the past or were to occur in the future. Four-year-olds succeeded on the tasks that involved reasoning about the order of past events but not those that involved reasoning about the order of future events, whereas…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Preschool Children, Task Analysis
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Russell, James; Cheke, Lucy G.; Clayton, Nicola S.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Cognitive Development, 2011
We analyze theoretical differences between conceptualist and minimalist approaches to episodic processing in young children. The "episodic-like" minimalism of Clayton and Dickinson (1998) is a species of the latter. We asked whether an "episodic-like" task (structurally similar to ones used by Clayton and Dickinson) in which participants had to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Internet, Child Development, Experiments
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Burny, Elise; Valcke, Martin; Desoete, Annemie – Educational Studies, 2009
Since the 1920s researchers have been studying children's temporal concepts, concluding that the concept of time is complex and difficult to teach children. This research literature review aims to provide a theoretical framework to guide future research about time-related teaching in primary school. After preliminary considerations about the…
Descriptors: Time, Literature Reviews, Elementary School Curriculum, Childhood Attitudes
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Passig, David; Eden, Sigal – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
This study sought to test the most efficient representation mode with which children with hearing impairment could express a story while producing connectives indicating relations of time and of cause and effect. Using Bruner's (1973, 1986, 1990) representation stages, we tested the comparative effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) as a mode of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computer Simulation, Hearing Impairments, Time Perspective