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Direct linkMichael C. Frank; Heidi A. Baumgartner; Mika Braginsky; George Kachergis; Amy A. Lightbody; Robert Z. Sparks; Rebecca Zhu; Stephanie M. Carlson; Sandra Graham; Sebastián J. Lipina; Nora S. Newcombe; Candice L. Odgers; Robert C. Pianta; Robert S. Siegler; Margaret Snowling; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Ana Cubillo; Kenneth A. Dodge – Child Development, 2025
Despite the ubiquity of variation in child development within individuals, across groups, and across tasks, timescales, and contexts, dominant methods in developmental science and education research still favor group averages, short snapshots of time, and single environments. The Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) is a framework…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Processes, Literacy, Numeracy
Kimberly Squires; Tricia van Rhijn; Debra Harwood; Jess Haines; Kim Barton – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Access to playful experiences outdoors is critical for children's learning and development. With a significant amount of young children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings (OECD, OECD Publishing, 2023), these programs have an important role in furthering children's equitable access to outdoor play. As part of a larger…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Processes, Child Development
Tamás Káldi; Ágnes Szollosi; Mihály Racsmány – Child Development, 2025
Retrieval practice is known to enhance long-term memory retention, a phenomenon termed as retrieval practice effect. Two experiments (NWhite = 202), showed that the effect was present in preschool age (5-6 years) and had a boundary condition, namely, amount of initial learning. Specifically, there was a considerable effect only when children…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)
Xiuyuan Zhang; Brandon A. Carrillo; Ariana Christakis; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Learning takes time: Performance usually starts poorly and improves with practice. Do children intuit this basic phenomenon of skill learning? In preregistered Experiment 1 (n = 125; 54% female; 48% White; collected 2022-2023), US 7- to 8-year-old children predicted improved performance, 5- to 6-year-old children predicted flat performance, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Skill Development, Predictor Variables
Frankie T. K. Fong; Daniel B. M. Haun – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have attracted less attention. These investigations have also focused on studying the role of pedagogy in imitative learning and set up most experiments in a…
Descriptors: Imitation, Fidelity, Learning Processes, Observational Learning
Jutta Kray; Linda Sommerfeld; Arielle Borovsky; Katja Häuser – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Prediction error plays a pivotal role in theories of learning, including theories of language acquisition and use. Researchers have investigated whether and under which conditions children, like adults, use prediction to facilitate language comprehension at different levels of linguistic representation. However, many aspects of the reciprocal…
Descriptors: Prediction, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis (Language)
Solange Denervaud; David A. Tovar; Jean-François Knebel; Emeline Mullier; Yasser Alemán- Gómez; Patric Hagmann; Micah M. Murray – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
Error-monitoring is a crucial cognitive process that enables us to adapt to the constantly changing environment. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) plays a vital role in error-monitoring, and its prolonged maturation suggests that it can be influenced by experience-dependent plasticity. To explore this possibility, we collected morphometric…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Children, Montessori Schools, Traditional Schools
Natasa Ganea; Caspar Addyman; Jiale Yang; Andrew Bremner – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated whether infants encode better the features of a briefly occluded object if its movements are specified simultaneously by vision and audition than if they are not (data collected: 2017-2019). Experiment 1 showed that 10-month-old infants (N = 39, 22 females, White-English) notice changes in the visual pattern on the object…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Multisensory Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Tony Eaude – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This article explores tentatively how young children develop a sense of beauty and should be guided in doing so. Beauty is partly a matter of personal preference, but it implies a more profound and considered idea than what is pleasing or attractive. Beauty contributes to well-being and a flourishing life. Since ideas of beauty vary over time and…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Child Development, Socialization, Socioeconomic Influences
Henning Dominke; Mirjam Steffensky – Review of Education, 2025
The family plays a vital role in fostering children's learning in science through joint experiences in diverse settings such as homes or museums. Beyond frequency, the quality of parent-child interactions in science significantly influences the children's development. However, research in this area has often focused on single aspects of…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Science Education, Child Development
Tracy Charlotte Young; Pauliina Rautio – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This article bewilders dominant discourses about child-animal relations by acknowledging and challenging the work of Gail Melson who positions animals as providing emotional, social and pedagogical support for children. Melson's psychological approach rests upon implicit assumptions that shape and support anthropocentrism whilst also critiquing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Child Development, Relationship
Deniz Kahriman-Pamuk; Farhana Borg – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
In this study, we compared how sustainability, children's agency, and play are addressed in preschool curricula in Sweden and Turkey. Content analysis was used to analyse, interpret, and compare the content. The findings indicated that sustainability is explicitly integrated into the Swedish curriculum but only partly mentioned in the Turkish…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Play, Preschool Education, Comparative Analysis
Christie, Stella – Infant and Child Development, 2022
Play is an essential component of childhood, but parents and educators sometimes view it as an optional add-on, which gets in the way of learning. This view persists in spite of evidence that play is helpful and sometimes critical to learning in multiple domains, perhaps because precise mechanisms whereby play occasions learning are not well…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Correlation
Mendoza, Jennifer K.; Fausey, Caitlin M. – Developmental Science, 2021
Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we report on properties of a ubiquitous early ecology in which foundational skills get built: music. We captured daylong recordings from 35 infants ages 6-12 months…
Descriptors: Infants, Music, Ecology, Learning Processes
Gabriella N. Caruso – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Play is an important component of a child's development and learning. Research studies on play therapy have shown the benefits it has on developmental areas such as behavior control, assertiveness, task orientation, and social skills. Primary Project is a school-based play intervention which has consistently shown improved social and emotional…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Play, Intervention
