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Cultural variation in cognitive flexibility reveals diversity in the development of executive functions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Cognitive flexibility, the adaptation of representations and responses to new task demands, improves dramatically in early childhood. It is unclear, however, whether flexibility is a coherent, unitary cognitive trait, or is an emergent dimension of task ...
Dale, Michael   +3 more
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Identification of Design and Development Needs for Preschool-aged Children's Educational Bags [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bags for students, especially for preschool-aged children have an important role, namely as learning media in the field of education. Attractive and innovative bag designs are highly required to make acceptable and favorable bags for children.
Cahyadi, D. (Dwi), Fibrianie, E. (Etwin)
core  

Preschoolers’ novel noun extensions: Shape in spite of knowing better

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
We examined the puzzling research findings that when extending novel nouns, preschoolers rely on shape similarity (rather than categorical relations) while in other task contexts (e.g., property induction) they rely on categorical relations.
Henrik eSaalbach, Lennart eSchalk
doaj   +1 more source

Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Presents the findings of a national study of more than 1,000 parents of children ages six months through six years, conducted from April 11 to June 9, 2003.
Elizabeth A. Vandewater   +2 more
core  

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
wiley   +1 more source

The role of affective information in the sociomoral development of preschool children

open access: yes, 1993
Early theories of social-cognitive development emphasized children\u27s unilateral respect for rules and authority (Piaget, 1932/65). Recently, however, children have been found to make conceptual distinctions among moral, conventional, and personal ...
Wiersma, Noelle Susanna
core   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

The relation between intensive parenting attitude and preschoolers’ social–emotional competence: the chain mediating role of family functioning and psychological resilience

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionSocial-emotional competence is crucial for preschoolers’ development. While previous research has emphasized the importance of parenting styles, little attention has been paid to how multidimensional intensive parenting attitudes and ...
Haiping Wang, Yi Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

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