Translating knowledge of children’s thinking to improve education

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Julie L. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Thinking

Characteristics of educators’ talk about decontextualised events

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-376
Author(s):  
Rebecca Andrews ◽  
Penny Van Bergen
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Future Event ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Long Day ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Day Care Centres ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Children’S Thinking ◽  
Sydney Australia

This study investigated the characteristics of educators’ talk about decontextualised events with young children in seven early childhood long day care centres in Sydney, Australia. Educators were partnered with up to six children aged between 27 and 60 months. Across two time points, 85 educator–child dyads discussed past and future events. Educators’ use of questions, contextual statements, evaluations and prompts and children’s use of questions, open-ended responses, yes-no responses and spontaneous information statements were examined. Educators’ evaluative statements were highly correlated and educators’ questions were moderately correlated with children’s open-ended responses in past event conversations. Educators’ evaluative statements were highly correlated with children’s open-ended responses in future event conversations and were the only significant predictor for children’s talk. Given the important role of educators in scaffolding children’s thinking and communication skills, the recommended strategies for educators’ talk in decontextualised conversations include: sharing the conversational load, making frequent contextual statements and following the child’s lead/interests.

Teaching Self-Direction to Enhance Children's Thinking in Physical Science

1994 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce B. Hudgins ◽  
Madonna R. Riesenmy ◽  
Sybil Mitchell ◽  
Christine Klein ◽  
Virginia Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Physical Science ◽  
Children’S Thinking

scholarly journals PERAN ORANG TUA DALAM MENANAMKAN NILAI-NILAI PENDIDIKAN KEWIRAUSAHAAN di SENTRA INDUSTRI KRIPIK TEMPE KAWASAN SANAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Nurul Istiqomah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Family ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Industry Center ◽  
Children’S Thinking

<p>Entrepreneurship is very important to instill independence in the younger generation. There are a number of things that have an important influence on a child's soul, including family, school and the environment. The role of the family, especially mothers as early educators who put the most important foundation for the growth of the personality and maturity of children's thinking. There are several research focuses that exist in, among others, (1) to know parents in instilling entrepreneurial education values in the central tempe chips industry in Sanan, Malang. (2) to knowing the form or result of the cultivation of entrepreneurial education values in the central tempe chips industry in Sanan, Malang (3) to knowing the obstacles in cultivating entrepreneurial education values in the Tempe chips industry center in Sanan, Malang. This study uses a qualitative approach to the type of research of community phenomena because researchers take data directly in the field. The technique of collecting data uses observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques include data collection, data reduction, and data presentation. The conclusion of this study is the role of parents in instilling entrepreneurial values is to guide and support the activities of their children in the field of entrepreneurship. The results have been well implemented through habituation. The obstacle in implementing entrepreneurship for children is the lack of parental trust so that it is difficult to teach entrepreneurship, it is difficult to determine which products are sold because they are too expensive, and the difficulty of the child to divide time.</p><p class="CPKeyword"><em><strong>Keywords: the role of parents; entrepreneurship</strong></em></p>

scholarly journals Levels of Sophistication in Elementary Students’ Understanding of Polygon Concept and Polygons Classes

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 1966
Author(s):  
Melania Bernabeu ◽  
Salvador Llinares ◽  
Mar Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Students ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Mathematical Meaning ◽  
Mental Operation ◽  
Spatial Structuring ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Children’S Thinking

This paper reports sophistication levels in third grade children’s understanding of polygon concept and polygon classes. We consider how children endow mathematical meaning to parts of figures and reason to identify relationships between polygons. We describe four levels of sophistication in children’s thinking as they consider a figure as an example of a polygon class through spatial structuring (the mental operation of building an organization for a set of figures). These levels are: (i) partial structuring of polygon concept; (ii) global structuring of polygon concept; (iii) partial structuring of polygon classes; and (iv) global structuring of polygon classes. These levels detail how cognitive apprehensions, dimensional deconstruction, and the use of mathematical language intervene in the mental process of spatial structuring in the understanding of the classes of polygons.

scholarly journals The Implementation of School Literacy Movement by Using Storybook in Elementary School

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Isnaeni Wahab ◽  
Nurhadifah Amaliyah
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
School Students ◽  
Story Content ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Children’S Thinking

Literacy is one way to build and develop children's thinking skills that are important for students. However, students' literacy habits are still low. Therefore, schools as one of the three educational centers should implement a literacy culture to improve children's thinking skills. This study aims to examine information about the application of literacy culture in schools and to apply literacy using children's stories for students. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach with a survey method. The subjects of this study were elementary school students. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis through the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that literacy activities in schools had been implemented with literacy fifteen minutes before the lesson started and used every corner of the school as a reading corner, while the implementation of literacy using storybooks was done by inviting students to read books with various story titles. Based on these results, it can be concluded that elementary schools already have a good literacy program and the application of literacy using storybooks can invite students to retell the story content and the moral values of the story. This research implies that schools should optimize their role as one of the three educational centers to build and develop literacy habits for elementary school students.

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