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Thomas Roed Heiden; Helle Rørbech – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article explores the potential for engaging 7 and 8-year-old school pupils in performative literature interpretation through process drama. Inspired by new materialism and affect theory, we focus on how literature interpretations come into being in dramatic fiction, and on how these becoming interpretations merge with the classroom. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2
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van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Elia, Iliada; Robitzsch, Alexander – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
This study aimed at gaining further understanding of kindergartners' performance in imaginary perspective-taking (IPT) by examining whether they can imagine "what" is visible from a particular point of view (IPT type 1: visibility) and "how" an object or scene will look from a particular point of view (IPT type 2: appearance).…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Kindergarten, Imagination, Foreign Countries
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Vander Heyden, Karin M.; Huizinga, Mariette; Jolles, Jelle – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Children practice their spatial skills when playing with spatial toys, such as construction materials, board games, and puzzles. Sex and SES differences are observed in the engagement in such spatial play activities at home, which relate to individual differences in spatial performance. The current study investigated the effects of explicitly…
Descriptors: Intervention, Play, Games, Puzzles
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Levering, Bas – Ethics and Education, 2011
The Dutch government has decided to intervene in parents' role in bringing up their children by imposing compulsory parenting support. As such an intervention has to be legitimatised as being "in the interests of the child", it is important to take a closer look at this concept. First it is shown that it is not evident that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Parent Role, Child Rearing