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Brod, Garvin; Shing, Yee Lee – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022
Humans accumulate knowledge throughout their entire lives. In what ways does this accumulation of knowledge influence learning of new information? Are there age-related differences in the way prior knowledge is leveraged for remembering new information? We review studies that have investigated these questions, focusing on those that have used the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Prior Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory
Elizabeth A. Ethridge; Adrien D. Malek-Lasater; Kyong-Ah Kwon – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early childhood teachers routinely facilitate play-based learning experiences in their physical classrooms; however, the pivot to virtual teaching platforms created a barrier for providing age appropriate, play-based learning opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are few studies exploring how to promote play in the virtual classroom or…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers, Virtual Classrooms
Foster-Hanson, Emily; Moty, Kelsey; Cardarelli, Amanda; Ocampo, John Daryl; Rhodes, Marjorie – Cognitive Science, 2020
Abstract How do people gather samples of evidence to learn about the world? Adults often prefer to sample evidence from diverse sources--for example, choosing to test a robin and a turkey to find out if something is true of birds in general. Children below age 9, however, often do not consider sample diversity, instead treating non-diverse samples…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Child Development, Age Differences, Evidence
Essame, Caroline – Childhood Education, 2020
Play is widely acknowledged as being critical for children's development, yet opportunities for play are becoming more scarce for many children.
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Developmental Stages
Hedges, Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Many scholars are influenced by the theoretical contributions of Lev Vygotsky. Significant post-Vygotskian scholarly writing highlights sociocultural perspectives of understanding everyday, informal learning as an important phenomenon. Ideas of participatory learning, and knowledge building through participation and inquiry, are included in the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Learning Processes, Educational Practices
Dang, Xixi; Yang, Chunliang; Che, Mengying; Chen, Yinghe; Yu, Xiao – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Testing of previously studied information potentiates subsequent learning of new information, a phenomenon referred to as the "forward testing effect" (FTE). The current study aimed to investigate the developmental trajectory of the FTE and whether the reset-of-encoding process contributes to the FTE. Younger children, older children,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development, Adults
Phillips, Bernadette – Journal of Montessori Research, 2022
The Neurosequential Model in Education (NME) is described as a developmentally sensitive and biologically respectful approach to development and learning. This paper postulates that the NME shares many commonalities with the Montessori Method in that it, too, is developmentally sensitive and adheres to biologically respectful concepts. This paper…
Descriptors: Models, Montessori Method, Child Development, Developmental Stages
Johansson, Jan-Erik – Global Education Review, 2022
How can we use Friedrich Froebel's play theory in order to analyze ECEC, Early Childhood Education and Care? Wolfgang Klafki builds his theory of categorical "Bildung" on Froebel's play theory, which presupposes the interaction between child, adult and content, as in the didactic triangle. Froebel's play theory was lost in the hands of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Video Technology, Child Development
Lillard, Angeline S.; McHugh, Virginia – Journal of Montessori Research, 2019
Part II of this two-part article continues the discussion of what Maria Montessori viewed to be the important components of her educational system. Because she developed the system over her lifetime, we prioritized later accounts when contradictory accounts were found. Whereas Part I focused on the environment, Part II examines the second and…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Preservice Teacher Education, Developmental Stages, Child Development
Raviv, Limor; Arnon, Inbal – Developmental Science, 2018
Infants, children and adults are capable of extracting recurring patterns from their environment through statistical learning (SL), an implicit learning mechanism that is considered to have an important role in language acquisition. Research over the past 20 years has shown that SL is present from very early infancy and found in a variety of tasks…
Descriptors: Child Development, Age Differences, Learning Processes, Children
Newcombe, Nora S.; Levine, Susan C.; Mix, Kelly S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
There are many continuous quantitative dimensions in the physical world. Philosophical, psychological and neural work has focused mostly on space and number. However, there are other important continuous dimensions (e.g., time, mass). Moreover, space can be broken down into more specific dimensions (e.g., length, area, density) and number can be…
Descriptors: Correlation, Spatial Ability, Numbers, Teaching Methods
Shafto, Patrick; Eaves, Baxter; Navarro, Daniel J.; Perfors, Amy – Developmental Science, 2012
A core assumption of many theories of development is that children can learn indirectly from other people. However, indirect experience (or testimony) is not constrained to provide veridical information. As a result, if children are to capitalize on this source of knowledge, they must be able to infer who is trustworthy and who is not. How might a…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Models, Familiarity, Inferences
Object Permanence and Method of Disappearance: Looking Measures Further Contradict Reaching Measures
Charles, Eric P.; Rivera, Susan M. – Developmental Science, 2009
Piaget proposed that understanding permanency, understanding occlusion events, and forming mental representations were synonymous; however, accumulating evidence indicates that those concepts are "not" unified in development. Infants reach for endarkened objects at younger ages than for occluded objects, and infants' looking patterns suggest that…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Brain-(Not) Based Education: Dangers of Misunderstanding and Misapplication of Neuroscience Research
Alferink, Larry A.; Farmer-Dougan, Valeri – Exceptionality, 2010
Oversimplification or inappropriate interpretation of complex neuroscience research is widespread among curricula claiming that brain-based approaches are effective for improved learning and retention. We examine recent curricula claiming to be based on neuroscience research, discuss the implications of such misinterpretation for special…
Descriptors: Brain, Special Education, Scientific Research, Neurology
Kendrick, Maureen; Kakuru, Doris – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2012
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the "funds of knowledge" (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Death, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)