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Direct linkByrne, Jenny; Norman, Amanda – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Drawing on experiential learning and transformative learning theory, a transformative model of continuing professional development (CPD) was employed to implement symbolic gesturing in a day nursery. The model of CPD aimed to empower practitioners working with infants to have autonomy over their professional learning. Perspectives of the nursery…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, School Personnel, Professional Development, Nonverbal Communication
Peer reviewedBierschenk, Bernhard – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Cognitive model of processing symbolic information abstracted from verbal expressions should consider running text, not scattered sentences. A valid abstraction of information structures should be based on explicit encoding of intentionality and valuation. A model must cope with empirical context and novelty instead of truth-values in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Language Processing, Models
Download full textBurtis, John O. – 1987
Arguing that understanding human interaction requires both a study of symbol use and a study of human action, this paper focuses on one function served by symbolization--fantasizing. Drawing upon the work of R. F. Bales, who identified the sharing of group fantasies as a useful communication function and who observed the process by which group…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Fantasy
Peer reviewedO'Reilly, Anne Watson; Painter, Kathleen M.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Cognitive Development, 1997
Study 1 explored associations between multiple measures of language and symbolic gesture development across ages 3 and 4; Study 2 measured more finely which aspects of language relate to the symbolic representation of actions with objects, and explored associations between symbolic gesture and general intellectual ability. Results showed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Language Acquisition
Siegel, Marjorie – 1983
To explore how readers create textual meanings or interpretations from written materials, a study that investigated reading from a semiotic perspective was conducted. The study's design was based on the principle of prior ethnography and employed data collection techniques common to field studies: participant/intervention and interviewing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Enrichment, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Romski, Mary Ann; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
The word-learning ability of 12 school-age subjects with moderate or severe mental retardation was assessed. Subjects used the System for Augmenting Language with visual-graphic symbols for communication. Ability to fast map novel symbols was found to relate to symbol achievement status. Implications for vocabulary acquisition by youth with mental…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
