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van Oers, Bert – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1997
Examines the use of iconic representations in young children from a Vygotskian perspective. Uses analysis of children's drawings as basis for argument that iconic representations are narrative in nature: children supplement drawings with verbal symbols to ensure that intended meanings are clear and thereby learn to carry out semiotic activity and…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Cognitive Development, Narration, Semiotics
Henning, John – 1998
The persistence of the constructivist agenda within learning and developmental theory suggests that underneath the seemingly disparate views of Piagetian, socioculturalist, and ecological perspectives lie some unifying concepts that find their mutual expression in constructivism. The paper contends that semiotics provides the conceptual means to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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McCune-Nicolich, Lorraine – Child Development, 1981
Reviews evidence for a developmental sequence in symbolic play and attempts to provide a theoretical rationale for predicting correspondences between symbolic play and early language. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Pufall, Peter B. – Human Development, 1997
Frames a developmental psychology of art by contrasting the structural orientation of the study of drawing and the functional orientation of the study of artistry. This model maintains that graphic symbolization emerges with early mark-making, children's representative art is guided by perceptions of affordances, and children continue to engage in…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art, Art Education, Children
Korac, Nada – Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 1988
Purposes a semiotic model for analyzing messages of the cinematic medium in film and television, and demonstrates its applicability to the study of children's comprehension of these messages. Highlights include the effects of visual and temporal features on comprehension; film and photography; and cognitive-developmental factors in comprehension.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
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Brockmeier, Jens – Human Development, 1996
Examines two prominent positions in the epistemological foundations of psychology--Piaget's causal explanatory claims and Vygotsky's interpretive understanding; contends that they need to be placed in their wider philosophical contexts. Argues that the danger of causally explaining cultural practices through which human beings construct and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Smagorinsky, Peter – American Journal of Education, 1995
Analyzes the appropriateness of textual media in the construction of meaning by reviewing the psychological research on semiotics and multiple intelligences that support a broadened notion of text, and presenting findings from research on the construction of nonprint texts in disciplines other than English. It suggests that exclusively focusing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Theories, English Curriculum