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Menendez, David; Hernandez, Iseli G.; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Children's understanding of death has been a topic of interest to researchers investigating the development of children's thinking and clinicians focusing on children's coping with the death of a loved one. Traditionally, researchers in cognitive development have mainly focused on death from a biological perspective. Current research suggests that…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Comprehension, Death
Thompson, Mumuni – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
In the quest for quality in early childhood education, it is important to explore the subtleties that define socio-culturally relevant pedagogy. A qualitative, multi-case study approach was used to explore perspectives of teachers about socio-cultural influences on their teaching in kindergarten classrooms in Ghana. Four teachers from two…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Culturally Relevant Education, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
Wellman, Henry M.; Miller, Joan G. – Human Development, 2008
While recognizing major contributions of the contemporary theory-of-mind framework, we identify conceptual and cultural gaps with respect to its inattention to deontic considerations. The framework has tended to portray behavior as purely self-directed, thereby neglecting everyday reasoners' understanding of behavior as normatively based. However,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills, Beliefs, Behavior Patterns
Leavens, David A. – Infant and Child Development, 2006
What capabilities are required for an organism to evince an "explicit" understanding of gaze as a mentalistic phenomenon? One possibility is that mentalistic interpretations of gaze, like concepts of unseen, supernatural beings, are culturally-specific concepts, acquired through cultural learning. These abstract concepts may either require a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Cognitive Development, Neurological Organization

Hatano, Giyoo – New Directions for Child Development, 1997
Focuses on three main issues emerging from studies of conceptual development: (1) young children's naive theories of the world; (2) how innate constraints in conceptual development work; and (3) how innate and sociocultural constraints are integrated. Maintains that early development of core domains of thought (naive psychology, physics, and…
Descriptors: Biology, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Modiano, Nancy – Florida F L Rep, 1969
The educational adage "Teach each child from where he is calls for a greater understanding than now exists of the nonstandard English speaking child's language and cognitive style. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (AMM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation

Coley, John D. – Child Development, 2000
Examines research in folkbiology (commonsense understandings of plants and animals) to argue that several lines of comparative research are needed to understand the acquisition of folkbiology in particular and conceptual development in general. Asserts that comparisons are needed between children and adults within a given society, between adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Biology, Children, Cognitive Development
Good, Ronald; And Others – 1991
This symposium examines the science education research enterprise from multiple theoretical perspectives. The first paper, "Contextual Constructivism; The Impact of Culture on the Learning and Teaching of Science (William Cobern), focuses on broad issues of culture and how constructivism is affected by the context of culture. Culturally based…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cultural Influences

Furth, Hans G. – Human Development, 1996
Claims that mind and mental objects form a societal mental structure enabling children to assimilate the society and become co-constructing members. Cites evidence that competence to create mental objects, symbols, and meanings separated from action is the evolutionary evolved human capacity for society and culture. Vygotsky's "natural"…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)

Omari, Issa M. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
This study examined the Piagetian developmental stages and order of the conservation concepts (area and distance) and the concept of horizontality in the coordinate reference systems. Subjects were 240 children, 60 randomly selected from each of grades one, three, five, seven, in three primary schools located in rural, suburban, and open terrain…
Descriptors: African Culture, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)

Stambrook, Michael; Parker, Kevin C. H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1987
A critical analysis of the current knowlege concerning the development of the concept of death in childhood is the purpose of this paper. Theoretical models and methodological limitations of the literature are addressed. Many factors have been implicated as contributing to the development of the concept of death. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cultural Influences, Death

Meacham, Jack – Human Development, 1996
Uses example of racism to compare Vygotsky's and Piaget's perspectives on the development of mind within the framework of questions regarding the mutual influence of societies and individuals. Notes that Vygotsky emphasizes knowledge transmission from older to younger, whereas Piaget emphasizes construction of new knowledge with potential for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Zhou, Zheng; Boehm, Ann E. – 1999
This study compared the performance of 300 Chinese children on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-Revised (BTBC-R) with that of American children from the standardization sample of the BTBC-R. Subjects were in kindergarten, first, and second grade, and completed the test at the end of the 1996-97 school year. The focus of the comparison was to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Cummins, James – 1973
This paper attempts to specify the ways in which bilingualism might affect cognitive functioning. Two general ways, the "linguistic" and the "non-linguistic," are distinguished. Linguistic explanations explain the effects of bilingualism on cognition as a direct result of the fact that the bilingual has access to two verbal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development

Lancy, David F. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1981
A multidisciplinary team research project to document the relationship between environmental and cultural features of Papua New Guinea, cognitive development, and mathematics learning is described. (MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cultural Background, Cultural Context
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