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Social Contexts of Development in Natural Outdoor Environments: Children's Motor Activities, Personal Challenges and Peer Interactions at the River and the Creek
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McClain, Cara; Vandermaas-Peeler, Maureen – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2016
This study examined the influence of spending time outdoors on young children's physical and socioemotional development. We observed preschoolers' activities in two naturally provisioned outdoor environments over the course of one year. Eleven preschoolers were videotaped continuously for 16 days at a local river and 9 days at a creek adjacent to…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Young Children, Child Development, Physical Development
Preparing Early Childhood Professionals for Relationship-Based Work with Infants
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Recchia, Susan L.; Lee, Seung Yeon; Shin, Minsun – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2015
This qualitative multicase study explored the process through which three student caregivers engaged in relationships with key infants in the context of an infant practicum course as a foundation for learning about infant development and practice. Focusing on caregiver-infant dyads, data sources included videotaped observations of caregiver-child…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Infants, Caregivers
Playful Talk: Negotiating Opportunities to Learn in Collaborative Groups
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Sullivan, Florence R.; Wilson, Nicholas C. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
This case study examines the role of playful talk in negotiating the "how" of collaborative group work in a 6th-grade science classroom. Here we develop and test a Vygotsky-derived hypothesis that postulates playful talk as a mechanism for identity exploration and group status negotiation. Our findings indicate that students utilized the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Grade 6, Science Instruction
Developmental Trajectories for Mother-Infant Coregulation in the Second Year of Life
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Aureli, Tiziana; Presaghi, Fabio – Infancy, 2010
Ten dyads were observed biweekly from 10 to 24 months of infant age while playing together at home with a set of toys. The aim was to examine whether mother-infant coregulation changes over the second year of the infant's life and whether there are individual differences in that process. Normative trends as well as variability between and within…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Individual Differences, Parent Child Relationship
Giftedness, Trauma, and Development: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Case Study
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Peterson, Jean Sunde – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2014
A qualitative, longitudinal, phenomenological case study explored how a gifted female experienced various life events and aspects of development during adolescence and young adulthood (ages 15-30 years), particularly as related to multiple traumatic experiences, which were revealed late in the first year of the study. Additional experiences, well…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Longitudinal Studies, Phenomenology, Case Studies
Portraits of Early Moral Sensibility in Two Children's Everyday Conversations
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Wright, Jennifer Cole; Bartsch, Karen – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Two children's conversations with adults were examined for reference to moral issues using transcripts of archived at-home family talk from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database (MacWhinney, 2000). Through target words (e.g., good, wrong, mean) in transcripts of two children between ages 2.5 and 5.0 years, 1,333 moral…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Child Language, Moral Issues, Moral Values