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Direct linkHui Zhao; Ying Huang; Bangdan Liu; Mengjiao Han – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Multilevel scientific creativity of college students has gained increasing scholarly attention. However, the double-edged effects of a playful climate on creativity have often been overlooked, while single-level theoretical frameworks have hindered the understanding of complex scientific creative processes. In this review, the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Science, Science Education
Hanna Palmér; Camilla Björklund – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
There is a growing consensus in research that children's numerical competence starts to develop at a very early age. However, there are few tools for screening the development of early numerical competence and thereby making this development researchable. One obstacle in designing such tools is that verbal utterances cannot be used as the primary…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Education, Numeracy, Screening Tests
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
J. Amos Hatch – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book aims to broaden the teaching repertoires of pre-service and in-service early childhood teachers so they can better meet the needs of the children they teach. Covering 16 early childhood teaching strategies--ranging from traditional play-based approaches through direct teaching and technology-assisted instruction to postmodern…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Play
Glykeria Fragkiadaki; Eirini-Maria Frangedaki; Iro Zachariadi; Vasilia Christidou – Research in Science Education, 2025
A growing body of empirical studies in the field of early childhood science education suggests play as a dynamic means to engage young children with the natural world and create the conditions for children's learning and development in science. Although our understanding of play in science as an activity deepens, we still do not know much about…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Play, Toys
Tarah Connolly – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Children's museums are delightful, whimsical, and joyful places, but they are undertheorized. This limits our capacity to fully leverage children's museums as spaces for expansive visions of literacy learning. It also limits our examination of the potential harms enacted by children's museums. To theorize the children's museum, I take Ash's…
Descriptors: Children, Museums, Social Theories, Neoliberalism
Download full textEvon Wong Yee Wan; Joanna Tan Tjin Ai; Swagata Sinha Roy – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2025
Language output has its role in second language learning and is seen as a source of L2 learning. It is used by the L2 learners as a cognitive tool to mediate their thinking and talking, hence, mediates L2 learning and development. English acts as the second language for most of the population in Malaysia and a compulsory subject learned in school.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Play, Sociocultural Patterns, Oral Language
Lisa Kervin; Jessica Mantei; Maria Clara Selina Rivera; Lois Peach – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
This paper shares an account of our wonderings, happenings, and learnings emerging from encounters between children, iPads, digital microscopes and found natural materials (and bugs!) in a series of workshops at a children's museum. Our intention is to build on and disrupt established theories about children's museums by thinking differently and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Play, Children
Abdülkadir Kabadayi; Özkan Sapsaglam; Kostas Karadimitriou – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2025
The study examines Greek and Turkish teachers' perspectives on the role of outdoor play in fostering children's sustainable development. Outdoor play extends learning beyond the classroom, promoting holistic growth and environmental stewardship. The research is designed according to qualitative research methodology and case study pattern. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Outdoor Education, Play
Lina Zhang; Peijia Lian; Yu Xue; Nianyang Wu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Although the importance of block play to children's spatial ability has been recognized globally, little is known about children's use of spatial frames of reference during spatial processing. This study investigated the intervention with guided block play to promote children's use of their intrinsic frame of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Amanda E. Gillooly; Deborah M. Riby; Kevin Durkin; Sinéad M. Rhodes – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Although children with Williams syndrome (WS) are strongly socially motivated, many have friendship difficulties. The parents of 21 children with WS and 20 of the children themselves participated in a semi-structured interview about the children's friendships. Parents reported that their child had difficulties sustaining friendships and low levels…
Descriptors: Friendship, Children, Congenital Impairments, Interpersonal Competence
A. Qvortrup; E. Lykkegaard – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
In this conceptual article, we propose a new approach to investigating changeable factors in teaching. Using a constructivist approach as a conceptual framework, we argue for investigating changeable factors recognizing their malleability and suggest studying teaching as a set of natural experiments. Methodologically, we propose an abductive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Play, Educational Environment
Yinka Olusoga – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
This paper applies a posthumanist lens, informed by the work of Hollett and Ehret and of Ingold, to consider children's playful affective entanglements with the human and the more-than-human during fluctuating periods of social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this refracting theoretical lens, I (re)examine a selection of play and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Play, Recreational Activities
Garrison Akira Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Misinformation is one society's most pressing issues, spreading division and chaos across the globe. Videogames have become one of the more promising mediums for misinformation interventions, teaching players common falsehood indicators and helping them develop their discernment abilities. This thesis details the design, playtesting, and…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Educational Games, Video Games, Intervention
Erica Collette Dinnocenzo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Preschool teachers are an essential part of the education system in the United Sates. The problem is that research and data about the development of literacy skills exist for kindergarten and upper grades, but there is minimal research on preschool teachers' perceptions on the development of literacy skills in a play-based learning environment.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Best Practices
