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Watts, Mike – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Fredrich Froebel was a scientist, both in instinct and in training, and his life coincided with an important and dynamic period of scientific growth. I take this opportunity to delve both into some history and futurology to examine the heritage and legacy of his work. The usual of interpolation is of reading into data: where there exist some…
Descriptors: Scientists, History, Futures (of Society), Scientific Research
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Obikwelu, Chinedu; Read, Janet; Sim, Gavin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
For a child to learn through Problem-Solving in Serious games, the game scaffolding mechanism has to be effective. Scaffolding is based on the Vygotzkian Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept which refers to the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learning Strategies, Child Development
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Dolmans, Diana H. J. M. – Academic Medicine, 1993
A University of Limburg (Netherlands) medical school study investigated the relationship between student-generated learning issues and faculty instructional objectives (i.e., the effectiveness of the problems posed) in a problem-centered obstetrics and child development curriculum. Subjects were 120 students and 12 faculty. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Higher Education