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Direct linkNikolai Veresov; Nikolai Veraksa – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
This paper introduces new tools for the cultural-historical analysis of children play in early years and how the cultural-historical genetic-analytical model can be applied as a tool of analysis of the role of children's play in psychological development. The paper discusses the complexity of the interrelations of several situations in child's…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Cultural Background
Amanda Thomas; Pavla Boulton – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook introduces the concept of loose parts and investigates its use in the outdoor learning environment. Exploring affordance theory as an underpinning approach to outdoor pedagogy, the book will also introduce readers to schemas, explaining why these repeated patterns of children's play are so important as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outdoor Education, Affordances, Schemata (Cognition)
Aaron DeMasi; Emiel Schoneveld; Sarah E. Berger – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infant motor development is affected by the sociocultural context in which it takes place. Because societal and cultural practices are dynamic, this exploratory study examined whether the ages at which infants typically learned to crawl, cruise, and walk changed over the past 3 decades. We compiled archival data from 1,306 infants born between…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Social Influences
John M. Franchak; Kellan Kadooka; Caitlin M. Fausey – Developmental Psychology, 2024
How do age and the acquisition of independent walking relate to changes in infants' everyday experiences? We used a novel ecological momentary assessment (EMA) method to gather caregiver reports of infants' restraint, body position, and object holding via text messages sparsely sampled across multiple days of home life at 10, 11, 12, and 13 months…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Activities, Child Development
Patrick Frierson – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2024
Montessorians, with their long history of careful attention to children's developmental possibilities, can and should develop materials and pedagogical methods that can help children not merely use but master the technologies of the future. This does not mean putting a computer in the hands of every 3-year-old; quite the contrary. Rather, it means…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Information Technology, Child Development
Sibel Serap Ceylan; Türkan Turan – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The study was carried out to determine the knowledge of child development students about foreign body aspiration in children, their first aid self-efficacy for foreign body aspiration, and to examine the relationship between their knowledge levels and first aid self-efficacy. The study was of descriptive and cross-sectional type. 118 students were…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Child Development, Self Efficacy, First Aid
Olatokunbo Osibogun; Olufemi Erinoso; Wei Li; Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan; Zoran Bursac; Akin Osibogun – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Objective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which refer to childhood traumatic events, have been identified as risk factors for tobacco use in adulthood. However, studies are limited on the effect of sex on the association of ACEs with e-cigarettes and dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes. This study explored sex differences in the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Child Development, Gender Differences, Smoking
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Freya Westlake; Meryl Westlake; Vaso Totsika – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: The review aimed to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child relationship interventions for families of children with intellectual disability up to 12 years old. Methods: Quasi-experimental or randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions targeting the parent-child relationship where =50% of children had an intellectual…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Intellectual Disability
Michelle Simpson – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
The benefits of play for children's learning are well-documented and well-researched. The evidence for its positive impact on brain development, social interactions, emotional wellbeing, and motor skills is widespread. So, why should this practice stop after the early years? "A Practical Guide to Play in Education" encourages teachers to…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Program Development, Resources
Taeyeop Lee; Hyeji Lee; Soowhee Kim; Kee Jeong Park; Joon-Yong An; Hyo-Won Kim – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine genetic variations underlying the early neurodevelopmental outcome of developmental disabilities (DDs). The study cohort consisted of 191 children with DDs. Diagnosis was assessed at baseline and at the index age (72-84 months). Exome sequencing was conducted and putative risk variants were identified.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Children, Genetics, Risk
Or Lipschits; Ronny Geva – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Communication is commonly viewed as connecting people through conscious symbolic processes. Infants have an immature communication toolbox, raising the question of how they form a sense of connectedness. In this article, we propose a framework for infants' communication, emphasizing the subtle unconscious behaviors and autonomic contingent signals…
Descriptors: Infants, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Jorge Cuartas; Dana C. McCoy; Isabella Torres; Lindsey Burghardt; Jack P. Shonkoff; Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
The climate crisis encompasses a constellation of risks that threaten human livelihoods, well-being, and survival globally. In this article, we present a new framework based on bioecological and dynamic systems perspectives, and on evidence for conceptualizing how the distinctive dual time frame of both acute (e.g., extreme weather events) and…
Descriptors: Climate, Child Development, Prenatal Influences, Perinatal Influences
Anastasia Dimitropoulos; Ellen A. Doernberg; Rachel A. Gordon; Kerrigan Vargo; Evelyn Nichols; Sandra W. Russ – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
The current study examines the efficacy of an 8-week pretend play intervention targeting social-cognitive abilities in children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), ages 6-9. PWS is a rare disorder associated with various social, emotional, and cognitive challenges linked to pretend play impairments, and for which interventions are sparse. Nineteen…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Obesity, Intellectual Disability
Abdulhamit Karademir; Halil Alkan; Mehmet Canli – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The aim of this study is to compare the neurological status, developmental parameters and physical fitness of children who engage in regular physical activity in the preschool period versus those who do not. The study included 305 healthy children aged 4-6 years, consisting of 154 girls and 151 boys. In addition to evaluating the demographic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Physical Fitness, Physical Activity Level
