Compensatory Preschool Education, Cognitive Development, and “Race”: W. Steven Barnett and Gregory Camilli

2013 ◽  
pp. 375-412
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Preschool Education

scholarly journals EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: A MAJOR LEVER FOR THE HEALTHY AND BALANCED DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Ihsane DAHANE
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Scholastic Success

The early childhood is considered as one of the decisive stages in a child’s life. It’s viewed as the first building block that shapes the child’s personality in all its aspects, as this is when the child begins to deal with his external surrounding. Moreover, during this period the child's awareness grows towards autonomy. He starts to rely on himself in his actions and movement confidently. What the child experiences in his first years, shapes all his upcoming learnings. For instance, during the preschool, the child starts acquiring new principles and grasps some abstract concepts like solidarity, participation, socialization … The institution also works on promoting all the skills which are related to artistic creativity, recreational and educational activities. And since the intervention at this stage has a great impact on the child’s scholastic success, Its consequences positively affect the child’s health and behavior, as well as his cognitive and mental development. Thus, the recent studies have shed light on the child's cognitive development in early stages. And focused mainly on understanding and identifying the factors affecting this development. A reference should be made that the child's cognitive development is crucially related scholastic success. That’s to say, by promoting the executive functions (inhibition - cognitive flexibility – memory – planning and organizing…) at the very early childhood stage is regarded as the cornerstone for building a child’s cognitive skills and acquiring social behavior. This research study aims to explore the children’s executive functions state at their early childhood stage (preschool children) in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses which needs intervention. The study was implemented by using the CHILDHOOD EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING INVENTORY (CHEXI) FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS. The study participant were 150 children, divided among 10 educators in the second preparatory level at 4 different schools. The latter are part of (The Moroccan Foundation for the Promotion of preSchool education) in the Rabat region. It was concluded that the executive functions of preschool children still need further reinforcement and development by setting up an intervention program.

Dziecko w działaniu – refleksje praktyka

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Paulina Grzelecka
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Educational Toys

Being a refl ective practitioner is a task for a teacher and a tool for his real professional development. This article presents a teacher’s refl ection before action, focused on the goal of education, a refl ection in action, where the teacher is an observer, tutor and diagnostician, and a refl ection after action, where I analyzed children’s activity in classes with educational toys. For the teacher’s work I have described the possibility of diagnosing students cognitive development based on their social role; how do they build strategies of logical thinking; what is wrong with preschool education; and how to engage students in classes. This text is a result of taking a part in the project Laboratorium Wczesnej Edukacji.

scholarly journals From Cooperation of Parents and Educators Towards Empowering Partnership

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (94) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audronė Dumčienė ◽  
Diana Šukienė
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
New Information ◽  
Children Education

Background. Partnership in this thesis is interpreted as the responsibility of children education which is taken by the members and their activity. The main role of the partners is to organize the environment of preschool education for children to use their prior knowledge and experience to understand new information and meaningful context.Methods. Two questionnaires were included in this research, 191 parents and 199 educators were questioned. Results. Educators and parents generally see the purpose of preschool education institution to stimulate the child’s social and cognitive development (88.9%) and considerably rarely the purpose is related to meeting the natural needs of a child (32.2%). Educators more often than parents thought that it was necessary to strengthen the education of parents in partnership with their children’s education (p < .001). Mutual ambition to collaborate (67.3%), better education of parents (49.2%), the maintenance of permanent connection (41.7%), information exchange (49.7%) and better confidence in each other (45.7%) would be helpful in seeking for more effective cooperation.Conclusions. Only a small percentage of parents understand that preschool education is most important to meet the natural needs of children, create healthy situations for the development of children’s inborn inclinations. Educators are not reoriented enough to the tendencies of nowadays and only one third of them believe in its importance to meet the natural needs of a child. In most cases parents and educators indicated the same factors which might influence empowering of parents and educators for the education cooperation which would develop into to partnership, but the importance of the  factors was often different.Keywords: empowering, cooperation, communication, preschool education, partnership.

scholarly journals Emotional and Cognitive Development of Preschool Children: Overview of International and Russian Studies on Role of Dialectical Thinking in the Regulation of Affect and Recognition of Complex Feelings

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-121
Author(s):  
Nikolay E. Veraksa ◽  
Anastasia K. Belolutskaya
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Dialectical Thinking ◽  
Affective Development ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Game Activity

The article contains an overview of studies on the problem of emotional and cognitive development of preschool children (43 papers, including 6 in Russian and 37 in English) conducted in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Germany, Norway, Russia, etc). Special attention is paid to works that consider the reflexive aspect of childrens experiences characterized by duality, inconsistency and multypositionality, which makes it possible to identify and trace the line of dialectical transformations based on preschool childrens emotional experiences. The following statements are formulated as key conclusions: (1) dialectical thinking can be considered as a cognitive mechanism necessary for the analysis of complex, ambivalent and hidden feelings; (2) the unit of cognitive and affective development is experience, which involves reliance on an internal dialectical structure; (3) a two-position perspective in the game activity is a condition for forming preschool childrens dialectical thinking operations, which in turn can become a cognitive mechanism for regulating affect; (4) the cognitive basis of the emotional anticipation phenomenon includes a mental action of changing the alternative, which is in the zone of proximal development of preschool children and allows adults to use it as a mechanism of emotional co-regulation; and (5) philosophical dialog practices, which imply a discussion of problematic-contradictory content with preschoolers and are aimed at forming in them such actions of dialectical thinking as transformation, mediation and change of alternatives. These provisions represent are an effective tool for developing the ability to distinguish dual complex feelings and analyze their causes and consequences. The results of the work can serve as a basis for creating and implementing conceptually new preschool education programs aimed at both the creative and emotional development of children, where dialectical thinking is considered, inter alia, as an ability necessary for regulating affect and helping children to experience and cope with complex conflicting feelings.

Pedagogical cooperation as a condition for the cognitive development of preschoolers with disabilities in inclusive education

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Lyudmila N. Makarova ◽  
Inessa V. Smolyarchuk ◽  
Svetlana N. Isaeva
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Control Stage ◽  
Preschoolers With Disabilities ◽  
And Control

We substantiate the need to develop pedagogical cooperation as a condition for the cognitive development of preschoolers with disabilities (on the example of children with mental retardation) in inclusive education. Domestic preschool education is based on new educational standards and equal educational opportunities for students. Our position is that the development of the cognitive sphere of preschoolers with mental retardation in inclusive education is most successful in the process of cooperation of children with teachers (teacher-defectologist and educators). The results of an experimental study carried out on the basis of the “Kindergarten no. 5 “Zvonochek” of the city of Tambov are presented. 20 preschoolers with mental retardation took part in the expe-rimental work. The study of cognitive mental processes was carried out with the help of diagnostic methods: “Correction test”; “10 words”; “Elimination of extra”. The developed program of peda-gogical cooperation as a condition for the cognitive development of preschoolers with mental re-tardation in inclusive education includes two blocks: the first block – classes on “Familiarization with the outside world”; the second block – classes on “Development of elementary mathematical concepts” in the process of joint activities of children, a teacher-defectologist and educators in a preschool educational organization. The relationship between the identified blocks of the program is analyzed, the main factors for pedagogical cooperation are determined. A comparative analysis of the level of development of cognitive processes in preschoolers with mental retardation (expe-rimental and control groups) at the control stage is presented, proving the effectiveness of the tested program.

Use It and Still Lose It?

GeroPsych ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Schwaninger ◽  
Diana Hardmeier ◽  
Judith Riegelnig ◽  
Mike Martin
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Cognitive Aging ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Airport Security ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Object Recognition Test ◽  
X Ray

In recent years, research on cognitive aging increasingly has focused on the cognitive development across middle adulthood. However, little is still known about the long-term effects of intensive job-specific training of fluid intellectual abilities. In this study we examined the effects of age- and job-specific practice of cognitive abilities on detection performance in airport security x-ray screening. In Experiment 1 (N = 308; 24–65 years), we examined performance in the X-ray Object Recognition Test (ORT), a speeded visual object recognition task in which participants have to find dangerous items in x-ray images of passenger bags; and in Experiment 2 (N = 155; 20–61 years) in an on-the-job object recognition test frequently used in baggage screening. Results from both experiments show high performance in older adults and significant negative age correlations that cannot be overcome by more years of job-specific experience. We discuss the implications of our findings for theories of lifespan cognitive development and training concepts.

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