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Engage Students with Dyslexia in Video-Based Learning Activities
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Antonio, Giardi – Online Submission, 2016
The aim of this paper is to focus reader's attention on "mobile" use of iTunesU and USiena model, as future compensatory tools. Starting from multimedia learning theories, a mobile course model has been designed (USiena model) and the experimental method has been used to carry out a "pilot study" with 32 dyslexic students. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Preschool and Im/migrants in Five Countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and United States of America. Early Childhood and Education
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Tobin, Joseph, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
A significant and growing percentage of the children enrolled in early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs in Europe and the United States are children of recent im/migrants. For most young (3-5 years old) children of parents who have come from other countries, ECEC settings are the first context in which they come face to face with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Immigrants
Educators' Intervention, Communication and Peers' Conflict in Nurseries
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Majorano, Marinella; Corsano, Paola; Triffoni, Giulia – Child Care in Practice, 2015
The aim of the present study is to assess the role of educators' interventions and communications in peer conflicts between preschoolers. Ninety-nine children (47 females and 52 males) aged from zero to three years were observed in seven Italian nurseries during free-play, mealtime and structured activity. Their interactions (verbal and non-verbal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Peer Relationship
How Do Children Make Sense of their Experiences? Children's Memories of Wellbeing and Distress from an Attachment Perspective
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Messina, Serena; Zavattini, Giulio Cesare – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Attachment's role in children's memories of wellbeing and distress was evaluated through the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task in 30 Italian children, aged 6 years (15 secure and 15 insecure). Their mothers' coherence of discourse was determined using the Adult Attachment Interview. A mediation model examining whether children's attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Memory, Well Being, Stress Variables
A Sequential Analysis of Classroom Discourse in Italian Primary Schools: The Many Faces of the IRF Pattern
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Molinari, Luisa; Mameli, Consuelo; Gnisci, Augusto – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: A sequential analysis of classroom discourse is needed to investigate the conditions under which the triadic initiation-response-feedback (IRF) pattern may host different teaching orientations. Aim: The purpose of the study is twofold: first, to describe the characteristics of classroom discourse and, second, to identify and explore…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries
The Musical Dimension of Daily Routines with Under-Four Children during Diaper Change, Bedtime and Free-Play
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Addessi, Anna Rita – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This paper deals with an action-research project currently being undertaken at the University of Bologna concerning the observation of music making during daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-play. Several observational protocols were carried out in natural and spontaneous contexts. The data analysis was…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Musicians, Infants