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Edwards, Susan – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
Digital play is a pedagogical construct used in early childhood to explain young children's engagement with technologies. Digital play draws upon theories of play to explain young children's learning with technologies. This paper proposes the further development of digital play by examining how the digital aspect of digital play may also be…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Early Childhood Education, Computer Oriented Programs
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Anderson, Babs – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
This article highlights the findings of an empirical research project, using an ethnographic approach, taking place over one academic year. It investigates the different forms of engagement that children may present, when acting in free play situations in a nursery in NW England, without direct adult intervention. This range of engagement includes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Nursery Schools, Young Children
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Teo, Tang Wee; Yan, Yaw Kai; Ong, Woei Ling Monica – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2017
Despite Singapore's excellent science achievements in international benchmark tests such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), little is known about Singaporean children's (aged 4-8) emerging science conceptions as formal science schooling begins at Grade 3…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Scientific Concepts, Young Children, Concept Formation
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Solis, S. Lynneth; Grotzer, Tina A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate kindergartners' exploration of interactive causality during their play with a pair of toy sound blocks. Interactive causality refers to a type of causal pattern in which two entities interact to produce a causal force, as in particle attraction and symbiotic relationships. Despite being prevalent in nature,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Play, Interaction, Concept Formation
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Eisazadeh, Nazila; Rajendram, Shakina; Portier, Christine; Peterson, Shelley Stagg – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
This article reports on research examining the social purposes of Indigenous kindergarten children's language and their construction of Indigenous cultural knowledge within and through interactions with peers during dramatic play and play with construction materials. The participants are three teachers and 29 children from two rural northern…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Language Usage, Rural Areas
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Wight, R. Alan; Kloos, Heidi; Maltbie, Catherine V.; Carr, Victoria W. – Environmental Education Research, 2016
This paper investigates young children's exploratory play and inquiry on playscapes: playgrounds specifically designed to connect children with natural environments. Our theoretical framework posits that playscapes combine the benefits of nature and play to promote informal science exploration of natural materials. This, in turn, is expected to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Environmental Influences, Natural Resources
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Harrop, Clare; Gulsrud, Amanda; Kasari, Connie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Due to the uneven gender ratio of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), girls are rarely studied independently from boys. Research focusing on restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) indicates that above the age of six girls have fewer and/or different RRBs than boys with ASD. In this study we investigated whether girls and boys with ASD…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Problems
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Hendershot, Shawnee M.; Berghout Austin, Ann M.; Blevins-Knabe, Belinda; Ota, Carrie – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Very little is known about children's discussion of mathematics topics during unstructured play. Ginsburg, Lin, Ness, and Seo [2003. Young American and Chinese children's everyday mathematical activity. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 5(4), 235-258. Retrieved from…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Mathematics, Interpersonal Communication
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van Polanen, Marleen; Colonnesi, Cristina; Tavecchio, Louis W. C.; Blokhuis, Susanne; Fukkink, Ruben G. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
In this observational study, male and female professional caregivers' (n = 42) levels of sensitivity and stimulation toward three-year-old children (n = 42) were observed in a semi-structured play situation. Further, sex roles of male and female caregivers were examined with the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Male and female caregivers showed the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Gender Differences, Sex Role
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Boomstra, Nienke W.; van Dijk, Marijn W. G.; van Geert, Paul L. C. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article describes a study on mutuality in mother-child interaction during reading and playing sessions. Within mother-child interaction, mutuality is seen as important in language acquisition. The study was executed within a group of Netherlands Antillean mother-child dyads who participated in an intervention programme. Mutuality was…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Intervention
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Cheung, Sum Kwing; McBride, Catherine – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: In Study 1, we observed 32 Chinese kindergarteners playing a number board game with their caregivers in dyads. Number board game playing provided important opportunities for kindergarteners and their caregivers to talk about an array of number concepts, but their numeracy-related exchanges rarely went beyond counting. In Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Play, Games
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Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
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McClain, Cara; Vandermaas-Peeler, Maureen – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2016
This study examined the influence of spending time outdoors on young children's physical and socioemotional development. We observed preschoolers' activities in two naturally provisioned outdoor environments over the course of one year. Eleven preschoolers were videotaped continuously for 16 days at a local river and 9 days at a creek adjacent to…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Young Children, Child Development, Physical Development
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Kelly, Clare – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
This article discusses a small-scale study that explores how members of one family based in Australia and the United Kingdom use remote technology to develop and maintain family relationships across generations and distance. Of particular interest was the manner in which Skype computer software was mediated to develop intersubjectivity between a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Family Relationship
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Walker, Olga L.; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Henderson, Heather A. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between maternal reports of social fear at 24 months and social behaviors with an unfamiliar peer during play at 36 months, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kashy & Kenny, 1999). The APIM model was used to not only replicate previous findings of direct effects of…
Descriptors: Fear, Play, Social Influences, Peer Relationship
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