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Reflecting on Individual Differences in Young Children: Cognitive Style and Early Education.
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Spodek, Bernard – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Discusses the relation of individual differences to cognitive styles in the early childhood education classroom. Topics include the use of knowledge of cognitive styles in classrooms and in matching teachers to children. (RJC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Early Childhood Education, Individual Differences
Exploring a High Achiever's and a Low Achiever's Strategies and Images in Early Number Work.
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Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Gagatsis, Athanasios – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Examined the learning strategies of two children at the extremes of mathematical achievement to determine how those strategies facilitated or hindered their understanding of mathematics. Examined findings in relation to curriculums that often dictate the sequence of learning through which all children will pass without taking into consideration…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Design, High Achievement, Individual Differences
"You Can't Have a Cake unless It's Written Down": Semiotic Activity and Authentic Learning in Play as a Potential Tool for Analysis.
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Cook, Deirdre M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Explores young children's mark-making in a domestic play setting. Suggests mark-making indicates aspects of the relationship between semiotic and conceptual development. Focuses on contexts in which mark-making occurs and on the authenticity of the learning events in which children participate. (DLH)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures