scholarly journals When a Circle Becomes the Letter O: Young Children’s Conceptualization of Learning and Its Relation With Theory of Mind Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenlin Wang ◽  
Douglas A. Frye
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Knowledge Change ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Learning Intention ◽  
Learning Stories ◽  
Effect Of Age ◽  
Genuine Knowledge ◽  
Children's Learning

In two independent yet complementary studies, the current research explored the developmental changes of young children’s conceptualization of learning, focusing the role of knowledge change and learning intention, and its association with their developing theory of mind (ToM) ability. In study 1, 75 children between 48 and 86 months of age (M = 65.45, SD = 11.45, 36 girls) judged whether a character with or without a genuine knowledge change had learned. The results showed that younger children randomly attributed learning between genuine knowledge change and accidental coincidence that did not involve knowledge change. Children’s learning judgments in familiar contexts improved with age and correlated with their ToM understanding. However, the correlation was no longer significant once age was held constant. Another sample of 72 children aged between 40 and 90 months (M = 66.87, SD = 11.83, 31 girls) participated in study 2, where children were asked to judge whether the story protagonists intended to learn and whether they eventually learned. The results suggested that children over-attributed learning intention to discovery and implicit learning. Stories with conflict between the learning intention and outcome appeared to be most challenging for children. Children’s intention judgment was correlated with their ToM understanding, and ToM marginally predicted intention judgment when the effect of age was accounted for. The implication of the findings for school readiness was discussed. Training studies and longitudinal designs in the future are warranted to better understand the relation between ToM development and children’s learning understanding.

Rethinking early years: how the neoliberal agenda fails children

Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (76) ◽  
pp. 128-157
Author(s):  
Celia Burgess-Macey ◽  
Clare Kelly ◽  
Marjorie Ouvry
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Early Years Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Children's Learning

Early years education in England is in crisis. This article looks at what is needed to better provide the kind of education and care that young children need outside the home, from birth to school-starting age. It explores: the current arrangements and varieties of provision and approaches in England; educational and developmental research about young children's development and early learning; the current national early years curriculum and how it contrasts to other international models and pedagogical approaches; the importance of play-based learning; the role of adults in observing, recording, assessing and supporting young children's learning; and the holistic nature of children's learning - which makes education and care inseparable in young children's lives. Neoliberal governments have had little interest in these questions: they have been focused instead on marketising the sector, which has led to great inequality of provision; and they have been unwilling to provide the necessary funding to train staff and maintain appropriate learning environments; most fundamentally, they have engaged in an ideological drive to impose on very small children a narrow and formal curriculum that ignores all the evidence about good practice in the sector, and is focused on making them 'school ready' - that is, ready to fit into the rigid frameworks they have already imposed on primary school education.

The role of soundscape in children’s learning

2002 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 2412-2413 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lubman ◽  
Louis C. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

The effect of age on children's learning of problems that require a configural association solution

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry W. Rudy ◽  
Julian R. Keith ◽  
Kathleen Georgen
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Effect Of Age ◽  
Children's Learning

scholarly journals A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Bulk Funding Debate

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

This article examines the bulk funding debate and concludes, first, that it is the injection of extra money, rather than the mechanism of bulk funding itself, which has allowed some schools to enhance their offerings. Secondly, it argues that in having taken on the responsibilities of governorship (including becoming employers of their children’s teachers), parents have been diverted from the more important role of engagement with their children’s learning, in partnership with teachers. An historical overview of the vigorous debate over bulk funding is also provided, from its inception with Tomorrow’s Schools up until the present, in view of its promised demise under current government policy. The article also presents a case study of a series of events at Colenso High School, Napier, where teachers, with support from the community, caused the Board of Trustees to reverse their decision to opt into bulk funding (the Fully Funded Option).

scholarly journals PERAN IBU DALAM KEGIATAN PENDAMPINGAN BELAJAR ANAK MELALUI PRINSIP INDIVIDUAL LEARNING-CENTERED

EGALITA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abtokhi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Learning Attitude ◽  
Learning Centered ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children's Learning

This research describing the role of the mother that very central in assisting children’s learning activities through the concept of mentoring that focuses on the uniqueness of each individual. This concept is termed a Learning- Centered Individuals who see uniquely child has potential, interests and dy- namics of each problem, so that the practical assistance should be focused on managing the potential and uniqueness of each individual dynamics prob- lems to deliver the right learning attitude, without forgetting the reaching academic achievement.<br /><br />Keywords: Ibu, pendampingan, belajar, Individual Learning-Centered

The role of recalling previous errors in middle‐school children's learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 997-1014
Author(s):  
Abbey M. Loehr ◽  
Lisa K. Fazio ◽  
Bethany Rittle‐Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning
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