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Eilam, Billie; Mattatia, Miri – Journal of Experimental Education, 2015
We investigated young children's construal of pain in relation to (a) the self, (b) other humans, and (c) animals, plants, and objects, to elucidate children's cognitive understanding of this complex, abstract, subjective concept. We interviewed 17 Kindergarten students using a variety of non-painful stimuli and procedures to prompt discussion of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Pain
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McMullen, Mary Benson – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
This reflective essay describes the author's experiences as an observer in a behaviorist infant classroom. The author developed four categories of practice to describe what happened in the behaviorist infant room: (1) curricular focus on training typically developing infants to meet typical developmental milestones, (2) the use of highly…
Descriptors: Infants, Constructivism (Learning), Observation, Child Care