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Barrett, Margaret; And Others – 1994
An ethnographic study documented and analyzed the idiosyncratic symbols kindergarten children employ to encode their experiences in the domains of mathematics, music, and visual art, in order to identify any patterns in use and meaning. In the area of mathematics, children were given common objects and asked to sort them. Four categories of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Associative Learning, Classification, Coding
Sigel, Irving – 1968
Representational competence refers to the individual's capability to respond appropriately to external representations. For example, a child engaged in a grouping task may collect together all like objects even if the group contains varying representations of the object, including (1) the object itself, (2) a three-dimensional likeness of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Classification