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‘With these exhibits many interesting things can be learned about past times’: Playmobil’s History Class – representations, reflections and expectations

open access: yesHistory Education Research Journal, 2020
In 2018, the toy manufacturer Playmobil launched a ‘History Class’ as an addition to its ‘Furnished School Building’. The materiality of this toy, and the selection of teaching media represented in coloured plastic (a blackboard with timeline, magnifying
Sebastian Barsch, Christian Mathis
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Les gadgets de Pif : de l’éducation au plaisir de jouer. Retour sur des années de création au Service gadget, 1969-1984

open access: yesStrenae, 2022
The gadgets of Pif Gadget have left their mark on people's minds but have not been the subject of much research as such. Based on the professional experience of Alain Poirier – gadget designer and promotion director at Vaillant from 1969 to 1984 ...
Juliette Ronsin
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Precocious puberty in Korean girls with and without exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in toy slime: a comparative analysis

open access: yesBMC Endocrine Disorders, 2021
Background Toy slime is popular in Korea, and in parallel, pre-pubertal girls visit hospitals for early pubertal signs. Thus far, numerous studies have investigated the association of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) with precocious puberty (PP ...
Mi Seon Lee   +3 more
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„Pięć milionów dzieci czeka na nowe zabawki…”. O organizacji przemysłu zabawkarskiego i wzornictwie zabawek w Polsce lat 50. i 60. XX wieku

open access: yesArtium Quaestiones, 2021
In the first years after World War II, the task of setting up a toy industry was undertaken in Poland. According to the declarations from the Polish People’s Republic authorities about providing all children with a carefree childhood, access to ...
Anna Wiszniewska
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
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Smurf: System for Modelling with Uncertainty Reduction, and Forecasting

open access: yesJournal of Open Research Software, 2021
Smurf is an open source modular system developed in Python for running and cycling data assimilation (DA) systems. It is organised around three super classes for numerical model management, assimilation schemes and observation instruments.
Isabelle Mirouze, Sophie Ricci
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Alexandre Schanne (1823-1887) et l’enfant : de l’art à la fabrication de jouets

open access: yesStrenae, 2012
Toy makers participate in the production of objects belonging to children's material culture. My research on the history of toys has drawn my attention to a nineteenth-century toy maker who was also an artist, Alexandre Schanne.
Michel Manson
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Contextual Modulation of Adult–Child Language Interaction: Semantic Network Connectivity and Children’s Vocabulary Development

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
Word learning encompasses the understanding of interconnected clusters of words, where the comprehension of one word aids in the learning of another.
Wonkyung Jang, Kathryn Leech
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Decoherence and disentanglement of qubits detecting scalar fields in an expanded spacetime

open access: yesEuropean Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2017
We consider Unruh–Wald qubit detector model adopted for the far future region of an exactly solvable $$1+1$$ 1 + 1 dimensional scalar field theory in a toy model of Robertson–Walker expanding spacetime.
Yujie Li, Yue Dai, Yu Shi
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