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Kayyal, Mary H.; Widen, Sherri C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
When asked to describe possible elicitors of fear, American children generate more stories about imaginary creatures than realistic ones; Palestinian children generate more realistic than imaginary causes (Kayyal et al., 2015). The current study reversed this task to investigate whether these patterns persist when American (n = 72) and Palestinian…
Descriptors: Fear, Imagination, Cross Cultural Studies, Story Telling
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Pinxten, Rianne; Desclée, Mathieu; Eens, Marcel – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
In 1963, the Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen proposed a framework for the scientific study of animal behaviour by outlining four questions that should be answered to have a complete understanding: causation, ontogeny, function and evolution. At present, Tinbergen's framework is still considered the best way to guide animal…
Descriptors: Animals, Guidelines, Secondary School Students, Undergraduate Students
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Mburu, Samuel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
To throw light on the challenge of providing education to pastoral households in the context of social and economic change, this study investigates the effects of herd migration on child schooling in Northern Kenya. Specifically, the analysis uses both household panel data and community-level focus-group data to identify the barriers to schooling,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Attendance Patterns, Age Differences
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Reeve, Elizabeth; Beswick, Kim – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
This article by Elizabeth Reeve and Kim Beswick illustrates how primary children may engage with the Statistics and Probability content contained in the Australian Curriculum. Technology has opened up many possibilities for young children to engage with statistics. In the process the children learned a great deal more than just mathematics.
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Probability