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Cutting, Chelsea; Lowrie, Thomas – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Learning progressions have become increasingly prevalent in mathematics education as they offer a fine-grain map of possible learning pathways a child may take within a particular domain. However, there is an opportunity to build upon this research in ways that consider learning from multiple perspectives. Many current forms of learning…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Child Development, Play, Learning Trajectories
David F. Lancy – Oxford University Press, 2024
In "Learning Without Lessons," David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Independent Study, Play
Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Linn, Emily; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Language Learning, 2022
Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the home environment elicits caregiver naming and cascades to learning object names. Our home-based study extends laboratory-based theories to identify real-world processes…
Descriptors: Infants, Video Technology, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
Karlsen, Lisa; Lekhal, Ratib – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
This research focuses on how practitioners in two Norwegian kindergartens interact with children during free play. The purpose of the study is to draw attention to the way the practitioners supported children's learning through their interactions with children during free play. Through naturalistic observations of 17 practitioners, results…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children
McNair, Lynn J.; Powell, Sacha – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Friedrich Froebel is well-known for the invention of kindergarten and the pioneering educational philosophy he developed in the 1800s, which respected children's self activity and women's capabilities for the role of teacher, while promoting play as the primary medium for learning. His radical ideas and principled approach to early childhood…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Theories, Kindergarten, Educational Philosophy
Joubert, Ina; Harrison, Giulietta Domenica – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The importance of a Piagetian approach is recognized in South African early childhood educational practices and teacher training, but the reality of the implementation of teaching and learning in the domain of early years opposes his philosophy in many ways. Our Early Childhood Education policies strongly advocate a Piagetian approach such as the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
Colliver, Yeshe; Veraksa, Nikolay – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
As societies become more aware of the importance of early socio-emotional skills for children's later success, teachers report that they are ill-equipped to support and enhance these skills within their 'traditional' teacher role. This paper turns to the contributions that Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and his adherents have made to our…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Child Development, Emotional Development, Play
Nilsson, Monica; Ferholt, Beth; Lecusay, Robert – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
In this article, the authors problematize the dichotomization of play and learning that often shapes the agenda of early childhood education research and practice. This dichotomization is driven in part by the tendency to define learning in terms of formal learning (i.e. learning as an outcome of direct instruction and school-based approaches that…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Child Development, Outcomes of Education
Gregory, Eve – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
How children learn to read is a controversial matter. Since the teaching of literacy has always been a major purpose of schooling, pedagogy and teaching methods have generally framed research and practice. Psychologists and linguists have played a major role in determining what we mean by "literacy learning". Although they disagree on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Sociocultural Patterns
Imagination for Inclusion: Diverse Contexts of Educational Practice. Routledge Research in Education
Bland, Derek, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Imagination for Inclusion" offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. Imagination as a natural, expedient, and exciting learning tool should be central to any approach to developing and implementing…
Descriptors: Imagination, Learning Processes, Educational Practices, Learning Theories
Björklund, Camilla – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This article reports on a small-scale investigation of how teachers organise goal-oriented learning in Swedish preschools. The revised Swedish curriculum (National Agency for Education 2011) highlights the need for children to develop their mathematics skills through activities that integrate play and learning. This study investigates how…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Problem Solving
Kucirkova, Natalia; Sheehy, Kieron; Messer, David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
This study explores the themes in the talk of two mothers and daughters as they share a self-created story with an iPad app. Vygotsky's theory of learning is applied to inform a thematic analysis and help interpret the learning potential within the observed parent-child exchanges. A deductive-inductive thematic analysis identified three recurring…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Mothers, Daughters, Parent Child Relationship
Ljung-Djärf, Agneta; Wennås Brante, Eva; Holmqvist Olander, Mona – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Swedish early childhood education (ECE) offers a curriculum-based preschool for children aged one to five, and a preschool class for children aged six years. Activities in these programs have traditionally been based on play and having fun, avoiding structured activities with formal learning objectives. Due to indications that Swedish ECE has…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Play
Fleer, Marilyn – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
The international trend to increase the cognitive achievement of early childhood children has generated a need for better understanding how concept formation occurs within play-based programs. Yet the theories of play for supporting early childhood professionals were originally not conceptualized with this need in mind. In this article, concepts…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Concept Formation, Schemata (Cognition)
Reynolds-Blankenship, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As part of human development, technology plays an important role in many children's lives. As digital technologies continue to permeate aspects of many children's everyday lives, educators are integrating digital technologies into classroom practices and, as such, have created a need to examine the ways in which children use technologies in their…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Play
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