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Takács, István; Szalai, Katalin – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The Institution for Special Education at the Faculty of Pedagogic of the University of Kaposvár has been engaged in animal assisted activities for about three years. Our most recent research program was conducted for over two month in the Spring of 2014 with the involvement of 66 children--all kindergarten and elementary school age--11 special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Mental Health, Pilot Projects
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Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Garcia, Bianca – Developmental Science, 2015
Young children engage in essentialist reasoning about natural kinds, believing that many traits are innately determined. This study investigated whether personal experience with second language acquisition could alter children's essentialist biases. In a switched-at-birth paradigm, 5- and 6-year-old monolingual and simultaneous bilingual…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Bilingualism, Young Children