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How an Educational Experiment Creates Motivating Conditions for Children to Role-Play a Child-Initiated PlayWorld
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Fleer, Marilyn – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Government guidelines are demanding greater educational outcomes and intentional teaching in Australian preschools. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of how children incorporate concepts into child-initiated play. A cohort of 18 children (aged 3.0-5.8, mean age of 4.8) were digitally observed over seven weeks…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Role Playing, Play, Preschool Children
Solitary Symbolic Play, Object Substitution and Peer Role Play Skills at Age 3 Predict Different Aspects of Age 7 Structural Language Abilities in a Matched Sample of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children
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Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Gibson, Jenny Louise – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Backgrounds and aims: Early symbolic play abilities are closely related to long-term language development for both autistic and non-autistic children, but few studies have explored these relations for different dimensions of pretence and of language. The current study explores carer-reported measures of solitary symbolic play, object substitution…
Descriptors: Play, Role Playing, Peer Relationship, Prediction
Exploring Embodied Methodologies for Transformative Practice in Early Childhood and Youth
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Cahill, Helen; Coffey, Julia; Smith, Kylie – Journal of Pedagogy, 2016
The development of gendered identities during early childhood and youth occurs in a context of "body culture" and the hyper-visibility of "perfect" bodies, which align with traditional gender ideals. Embodied methods can assist to make complexity more visible, and to allow participants to see fluidity, shifts, and becoming.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Youth, Sexual Identity, Social Change
Children Online: Learning in a Virtual Community of Practice
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Thomas, Angela – E-Learning, 2005
This article argues that children in a particular virtual community are learning through their participation in the discursive and social practices of the community. Using Wenger's model of "communities of practice" the article illuminates examples of children's learning that were a direct result of collaboration towards a common goal.…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
The Contemporary Australian Infants' Program: Development, Implementation and Evaluation.
Belme, Jillian – 1980
This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an Australian follow-through kindergarten year one program for children who had participated in an individualized, experience-based preschool program. Follow-through program development focused on planning a program that offered experiences compatible with those offered at…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Coordination, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers