Yoruba toddlers’ engagement in errands and cognitive performance on the Yoruba Mental Subscale

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluyomi A. Ogunnaike ◽  
Robert F. Houser
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
The Relationship

Responsibility training is an essential component of child-rearing practices in several African societies. To inculcate responsibility, caregivers allocate their children household duties and send them on errands; these include (but are not limited to) fetching objects and purchasing items. Such errands foster the acquisition of cognitive, social, and economic competencies. In this paper, the relationship between the types of errands engaged in by Yoruba toddlers of southwest Nigeria and cognitive performance using an adapted version of the Bayley Mental Scales of Development, referred to as the Yoruba Mental Subscale, is examined. Findings revealed that children who engaged in purchasing items and retrieving specific objects for the caregiver had a significantly higher performance on the Yoruba Mental Subscale compared to children who did not engage in such errands. With regard to performance on the Bayley Mental Scales, findings revealed no significant association with the errands examined. The implications of these findings for cross-cultural research and early childhood education are discussed.

Cross-Cultural Psychology of Play and Early Childhood Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 184-201
Author(s):  
Asil Ali Özdoğru
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Theory Research

Play is a universal form of human behavior that has been observed across all cultures and constitutes a fundamental role in children's development. This chapter summarizes theory, research, and practice of play in early childhood education from a cross-cultural perspective. Even though there are common qualities of play, there is a great deal of variation within and across cultures. In the multicultural environment of globalizing world, early childhood professionals need to make better use of play from an intercultural perspective. Effective utilization of play in early childhood education needs a thorough understanding of scientific theories and cross-cultural research on play. Quality early childhood education programs incorporate play as a central element in the curriculum with consideration of both individual- and group-level differences. Developmentally and culturally appropriate practice in early childhood education demands the assessment and utilization of individual and cultural characteristics of children in the planning and implementation of play-based interventions.

Cross-Cultural Psychology of Play and Early Childhood Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Asil Ali Özdoğru
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Theory Research

Play is a universal form of human behavior that has been observed across all cultures and constitutes a fundamental role in children's development. This chapter summarizes theory, research, and practice of play in early childhood education from a cross-cultural perspective. Even though there are common qualities of play, there is a great deal of variation within and across cultures. In the multicultural environment of globalizing world, early childhood professionals need to make better use of play from an intercultural perspective. Effective utilization of play in early childhood education needs a thorough understanding of scientific theories and cross-cultural research on play. Quality early childhood education programs incorporate play as a central element in the curriculum with consideration of both individual- and group-level differences. Developmentally and culturally appropriate practice in early childhood education demands the assessment and utilization of individual and cultural characteristics of children in the planning and implementation of play-based interventions.

Relation of Parental Strictness to Competitive and Cooperative Attitudes of Primary School Children

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 864-866
Author(s):  
Ezra K. Arap-Maritim
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study was undertaken to assess the nature of the relationship of parental strictness to competitive and cooperative attitudes of primary school children as measured by Minnesota School Affect Assessment. On the competitive items 109 boys did not score significantly higher than 119 girls but the girls scored higher than the boys on the cooperative items. Girls perceived their parents as being more strict than boys. For boys a significant correlation was found between parental strictness items and competitiveness, whereas for girls both competitiveness and cooperativeness showed significant correlation with parental strictness. The children apparently expressed attitudes about their parents that were strongly correlated to their sex differences in attitudes. More cross-cultural research on specific child-rearing variables is recommended using valid and reliable measures such as the Minnesota School Affect Assessment.

scholarly journals Associations between Children’s Risky Play and ECEC Outdoor Play Spaces and Materials

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3354
Author(s):  
Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter ◽  
Ole Johan Sando ◽  
Rasmus Kleppe
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Outdoor Play ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Functional Play ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Risky Play ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Play Materials

Children spend a large amount of time each day in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions, and the ECEC play environments are important for children’s play opportunities. This includes children’s opportunities to engage in risky play. This study examined the relationship between the outdoor play environment and the occurrence of children’s risky play in ECEC institutions. Children (n = 80) were observed in two-minute sequences during periods of the day when they were free to choose what to do. The data consists of 935 randomly recorded two-minute videos, which were coded second by second for several categories of risky play as well as where and with what materials the play occurred. Results revealed that risky play (all categories in total) was positively associated with fixed equipment for functional play, nature and other fixed structures, while analysis of play materials showed that risky play was positively associated with wheeled toys. The results can support practitioners in developing their outdoor areas to provide varied and exciting play opportunities.

scholarly journals Socioenvironmental Educommunication as a pedagogical strategy in early childhood education

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
José Vicente de FREITAS ◽  
Felipe Nóbrega FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Audiovisual Material ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the concept of Socioenvironmental Educommunicationin the context of preschool education. An interface that emerges from the relationship between Educommunication and Environmental Education, this concept will be exposed based on a bibliographic systematization, when it becomes possible to find the contemporary intersections that arise from the use of audiovisual technology as mediation in the teaching-learning process. Such analysis will be done taking into consideration the documentary 1,2,3 Playing –Reinventing School Spaces, produced by the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina, which brings an audiovisual material made by the students. Using a quanti-qualitative approach, emerges the pedagogical power of Socioenvironmental Education, which ends up bringing to the scene language and content that project another way of thinking the school. Finally, there is a reflection on how, based on particularities, it is possible to create educational policies that contemplate the audiovisual tool in early childhood education.

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