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Gul, Showkeen Bilal Ahmad – Online Submission, 2023
Education is a lifelong endeavour that starts in the womb and lasts until death. It helps the individual to develop full potential by allowing to control the environment of his/her own successful life and living. The foundation of education begins in one's very early childhood and lays the foundation for later stages of educational progression.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Games
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Aubrey, Carol – Educational Studies, 1987
Outlines the life and philosophy of noted French child psychologist, Henri Wallon (1879-1962). Reviews the philosophical origins of the Wallonian Approach including the theory of emotions, the development of representational thought, the role of imitation in the formation of representation, and the role of language in the development of thought…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Educational Philosophy, Emotional Development, Higher Education
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Hoff, Erika – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Researchers in the fields of cognitive and language development have made less use of large-scale longitudinal designs and of person-centered approaches to data analysis than have researchers in the fields of social and personality development. It is argued that differences among domains of developmental psychology in the research methods employed…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Personality, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
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Guiora, Alexander Z. – Language Learning, 1983
Considers the acquisition of native language and foreign language as complementary aspects of one basic cognitive-affective schema, interacting and conflicting with each other in a variety of ways. In addition, an illumination of the psychological processes impinging on one can shed light, in a reciprocal way, on the other. (SL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cultural Context, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Norden, Kerstin – American Annals of the Deaf, 1981
Observations showed that the use of signs did not impede the development of speech. Instead it seems to increase the children's skill in lipreading, although the early use of written language may play a part by facilitating the encoding of lip movements. (Author)
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Lovell, Kenneth – Educational Review, 1979
The author discusses major theories and developments over the last 30 years in three areas of developmental psychology: cognitive development, first language acquisition, and personality. He also comments briefly on methodology in the field. (SJL)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology
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Hawkins, Margaret R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
In this article I argue that both sociocultural theories and those that address academic literacies must be invoked to adequately understand language and literacy development in schools. Through exploring the histories, school lives, and viewpoints of two kindergarten students, I show how identity work negotiated in classroom interactions can…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Socialization, Emergent Literacy, Persuasive Discourse
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Fan, Liu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
A brief history of Chinese developmental psychology is given, and current main research projects are highlighted. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developmental Psychology