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Direct linkAnna Backman – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore a theoretical idea in relation to a body of empirical material from a reading activity involving a picturebook on shadow. The theoretical idea, sprung from variation theory, entails children's discernment through synchronic simultaneity as a key to their ability to imagine. To explore this idea, an analysis…
Descriptors: Imagination, Picture Books, Preschool Children, Learning Activities
Download full textNatalie M. Fletcher – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2021
Michael Polanyi famously stated that "we can know more than we can tell," but is it possible to know more than we imagine? Or, on the contrary, does imagining play a role in elucidating what we feel we know but cannot fully express? In this article, the author argues that imagining can elucidate knowledge by helping us to name and color…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Epistemology, Phenomenology, Imagination
Veraksa, Alexander Nikolaevich; Gavrilova, Margarita Nikolaevna; Bukhalenkova, Daria ?lexeevna; Almazova, Olga; Veraksa, Nickolay Evgenievich; Colliver, Yeshe – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Previous research has indicated that young children's executive functions (EFs) can be bolstered through role-play [e.g. the 'Batman™ effect'; White et al.]. However, what is not clear is whether it is the role-playing of another's perspective, or something about the role played, which is responsible for the Batman™ effect. The current experiment…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Role Playing
Colliver, Yeshe; Veraksa, Nikolay – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
As societies become more aware of the importance of early socio-emotional skills for children's later success, teachers report that they are ill-equipped to support and enhance these skills within their 'traditional' teacher role. This paper turns to the contributions that Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and his adherents have made to our…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Child Development, Emotional Development, Play
Smolucha, Larry; Smolucha, Francine – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
According to Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934), the highest levels of abstract thinking and self-regulation in preschool development are established in "pretend play using object substitutions." An extensive research literature supports Vygotsky's empirical model of the internalization of self-guiding speech (social speech > private speech…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Early Childhood Education, Abstract Reasoning, Self Control
Wang, Ying – SAGE Open, 2021
This article focuses on authenticity of second language identity which has been at issue. Previous research of the authenticity of second language identity has revealed that second language identity may be inauthentic due to the impact from social context and the individual's competence and desires. The discussion in this article aims at exploring…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
