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Student Conceptions about Energy in Biological Contexts
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Opitz, Sebastian T.; Blankenstein, Andreas; Harms, Ute – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
The concept of energy serves biologists as a powerful analytical model to describe phenomena that occurs in the natural world. Due to the concept's relevance, educational standards of different countries identify energy as a core idea for the teaching and learning of biology and other science subjects. However, previous research on students'…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Energy, Biology
Bodies Displayed on Walls: Are Children's Bodies Represented in an Inclusive Way in the Pictures on the Walls in Their Early Childhood Educational Environments?
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Martínez-Bello, Vladimir E.; Martínez-Bello, Judith T. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
The messages conveyed by visual representations in the early childhood education (ECE) environment are critical to ensuring the success of inclusive practices. Given that anti-bias education permeates and affects everything which takes place in ECE institutions, the challenge for early childhood educators is to think creatively about how classroom…
Descriptors: Human Body, Early Childhood Education, Visual Stimuli, Inclusion
"The Three Pigs": Can They Blow Us into Critical Media Literacy Old School Style?
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Flores-Koulish, Stephanie A.; Smith-D'Arezzo, Wendy Marie – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
In this article, the authors show how groups of 2nd- and 4th-grade students in an urban school district responded to a postmodern children's book, The "Three Pigs" by David Wiesner (2001). The students came to the project from basal-based direct instruction, and here they were offered a more constructivist opportunity to engage with a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools
The Impact of Audience Age and Familiarity on Children's Drawings of Themselves in Contrasting Affective States
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Burkitt, Esther; Watling, Dawn – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The present study was designed to investigate the impact of familiarity and audience age on children's self-presentation in self-drawings of happy, sad and neutral figures. Two hundred children (100 girls and 100 boys) with the average age of 8 years 2 months, ranging from 6 years 3 months to 10 years 1 month, formed two age groups and five…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Age Differences, Children, Freehand Drawing
Developmental Changes in Children's Understandings of Intelligence and Thinking Skills
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Burke, Lynsey A.; Williams, Joanne M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Research on children's concepts of intelligence has not considered how children conceptualise specific thinking skills. This study extends previous research on the development of children's concepts of intelligence and produces novel data on children's understandings of effective thinking and thinking skills. Seventy-five children were sampled…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Childhood Attitudes
Demands Upon Children Regarding Quality of Achievement: Standard Setting in Preschool Classrooms.
Potter, Ellen F. – 1982
Focusing particularly on messages transmitted by socializing agents in preschool settings, this exploratory study investigates (1) the incidence of communication events in which standards for achievement are expressed, (2) the nature of the standards, and (3) variations across settings in the nature of standard-setting events. The relationship of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classroom Communication, Coding