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Yoon, Haeny S.; Templeton, Tran Nguyen – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
In this research article, Haeny Yoon and Tran Nguyen Templeton explore the challenges of listening to children in both classrooms and research that purports to center young children. Through two stories from their respective studies, Yoon and Templeton highlight the complexities of following children's leads given the competing agendas situating…
Descriptors: Listening, Young Children, Adults, Childrens Attitudes
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Kim, Minsung; Bednarz, Robert; Kim, Jaeyil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
The National Research Council emphasizes using tools of representation as an essential element of spatial thinking. However, it is debatable at what age the use of spatial representation for spatial thinking skills should begin. This study investigated whether young Korean children possess the potential to understand map-like representation using…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Map Skills
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Burns, Marcia V.; Chi, Sojin Y.; Hertzog, Nancy B. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
This article describes an investigation of a tallgrass prairie undertaken by 3- through 7-year-old children in a preschool and a combined kindergarten/first-grade classroom at a Midwestern university. The teaching teams were curious about how these two age groups would explore their questions about the prairie--how their questions would differ by…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Investigations, Emotional Development, Preschool Children