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Direct linkCharlotte Rothwell; Gert Westermann; Calum Hartley – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Word learning depends on attention -- children must focus on the right things at the right times. However, autistic children often display restricted interests, limiting their intake of stimuli during word learning. This study investigates how category interests influence word learning in autism and neurotypical development. Autistic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Rating Scales, Children
Celine P. Y. Chu; Karen McLean; Susan Edwards – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Playgroups are a unique form of early childhood provision involving parents and their children attending together. Parents' attendance at playgroups provides opportunities for involvement in play. However, little is known about parents' practices of co-play in playgroups and the potential for these practices to enhance children's play experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Group Activities, Family (Sociological Unit)
Yong Ju Jung; Heather Toomey Zimmerman – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
Children's multiple interests intersect with their participation in informal learning practices in dynamic ways. Using a theoretical framework illustrating interest as a multifaceted construct that has different forms and a range of scope and durability, this study investigates how children's situational interests and individual interests are…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Museums, Science Education, Children
Esra Ercan Bilgiç – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
UN General Comment No. 25 (2021) emphasizes the importance of safeguarding children's rights in the digital sphere. However, in Turkey, media coverage often focuses on the negative aspects of the relationship between digital media and children, overshadowing opportunities, and rights. This study aims to analyze news articles focused on digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Reporting, Children, Mass Media Role
Download full textJames R. Pennell – American Journal of Play, 2024
The author uses a dialogical autoethnographic approach informed by symbolic interactionist theory to examine the role of toys, play, and parenting decisions on his childhood development and adult opportunities and interests. He examines how self, others, social contexts, and objects, particularly toys and adult analogues for those toys, came…
Descriptors: Play, Adults, Skills, Interests
Lacey E. Peters; Beth Blue Swadener; Marianne N. Bloch – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
This essay brings together three intergenerational colleagues, two RECE founders, and a mid-career colleague, engaged in reciprocal mentorship, collaborative projects, and research focused on child care, critical policy studies, and global childhoods. We explore our encounters with RECE and how we have engaged with, been influenced by, and found…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Intergenerational Programs, Participative Decision Making
