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Hedges, Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Many scholars are influenced by the theoretical contributions of Lev Vygotsky. Significant post-Vygotskian scholarly writing highlights sociocultural perspectives of understanding everyday, informal learning as an important phenomenon. Ideas of participatory learning, and knowledge building through participation and inquiry, are included in the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Learning Processes, Educational Practices
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Bensalah, Leila – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This study analysed the gradual emergence of the teaching/learning process by examining theory of mind (ToM) acquisition and age effects in the preschool period. We observed five dyads performing a jigsaw task drawn from a previous study. Three stages were identified. In the first one, the teacher focuses on the execution of her/his own task…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Emotional Intelligence
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Kent-Davis, J.; Cochran, Kathryn F. – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Summarizes relevant aspects of the theory of field dependence. Topics discussed include stages of information processing, developmental issues and implications, and future directions for research. (RJC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Developmental Stages, Encoding (Psychology)
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Zervigon-Hakes, Anita – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Describes materials mastery and symbolic development as two discrete but related processes that preschool children learn. Uses the preschool setting to identify the developmental stages of construction play. (AS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Dramatic Play, Learning Processes
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Piazza, Carolyn L.; Riggs, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Describes kindergarten children's oral and written language behaviors while operating a computer. Stages of computer language play and children's experimentation with speech and writing specific to the computer also are discussed. (AS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children