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Talking about Artifacts: Preschool Children's Explorations with Sketches, Stories, and Tangible Objects
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Evangelou, Demetra; Dobbs-Oates, Jennifer; Bagiati, Aikaterini; Liang, Sandy; Choi, Ji Young – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
Exploratory learning is recognized as a developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood education. During exploration, exposure to new things guides children in the acquisition of knowledge, while interactions with a range of familiar and unfamiliar artifacts can support developmental integration. Exploratory activity may occur…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Discovery Learning, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Kinesthetic Ventures Informed by the Work of F. M. Alexander, Stanislavski, Peirce, and Freud.
Bouchard, Ed; Wright, Ben; Protzel, Michael, Ed. – 1997
This book is about education harvested from self-observation. F. Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) studied the experience of self formation, working with motor habits. His method is used in performing arts training to enhance bodily and vocal expression. Like Alexander, Konstantine Stanislavski (1863-1938) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) studied human…
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Kinesthetic Perception, Learning
Modality and Reading: A Perspective
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Wolpert, Edward M. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Points out that oral reading involves visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception and that it is impossible to divide reading methods into auditory and visual categories. Discusses the need to discover whether a child's perceptual abilities are directly related to his learning propensities and lists several other areas of needed research.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Kinesthetic Perception
Testing Word Recognition as a Function of Learning Modality.
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Heyman, Marjorie Rowe – 1970
Training in word recognition based on a child's dominant sensory modality (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) was compared with training based on nondominant modality. Twenty-five first-grade children with no prior instruction in reading were given visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities tests and a pretest of recognition of the words used in…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Grade 1, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning
Proprioceptive Control of Human Movement. The Human Movement Series.
Dickinson, John – 1974
Various research studies concerned with the feedback from proprioceptors which accompany movement and the way in which this information is relevant to the control of activity are brought together in this volume. It is intended for the use of those who have some basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology as well as an acquaintance with…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Feedback, Human Body, Kinesthetic Perception
The Development of a Program o f Instruction for Beginning Handwriting Emphasizing Verbalization of Procedures to Increase Perception and an Analysis of the Effectiveness of this Program through Comparison with a Commercial Method. (Volumes I and II).
Furner, Beatrice Ann – 1967
In this study, a teaching method stressing the learner's perceptual development was prepared for the purpose of teaching beginning handwriting to children. During a school year, 324 first-graders were guided to examine the formational processes of handwriting, to describe the correct procedures orally, to check their own procedures against the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 1
INTERSENSORY INTEGRATION AND READING, A THEORY.
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HURLEY, OLIVER L. – 1966
A LITERATURE REVIEW OF SIX KEY CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PROCESSES IS PRESENTED. THE SIX CONCEPTS ARE (1) COGNITIVE GROWTH, (2) PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MODELS SUCH AS THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES (ITPA), (3) INTERSENSORY INTEGRATION, (4) REMEDIAL TEACHING TECHNIQUES, (5) VISUALIZATION IN INTEGRATIVE TASKS, AND (6) CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research