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Ackermann, Lena; Hepach, Robert; Mani, Nivedita – Developmental Science, 2020
The overall pattern of vocabulary development is relatively similar across children learning different languages. However, there are considerable differences in the words known to individual children. Historically, this variability has been explained in terms of differences in the input. Here, we examine the alternate possibility that children's…
Descriptors: Children, Vocabulary Development, Learner Engagement, Childhood Interests
Breidenstein, Georg – Ethnography and Education, 2007
Spending just a few hours in the classroom situation as a participant observer, one definitely recognizes "boredom" as one of the main features of this situation. In spite of the obvious relevance of boredom in the classroom situation there is almost no research on the topic of boredom at school. Boredom seems to be a taboo of sorts in…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Interaction, Classroom Environment
Koehn, Ilse – Horn Book Magazine, 1981
An illustrator and author reflects on growing up in Nazi Germany. (AEA)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Early Experience

Oelkers, Jurgen – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2002
Discusses changes in the history of childhood. Argues that the change was not caused by reform pedagogics, but by a movement to popular culture. Describes the functioning of a commercialized children's culture and its definition of happiness. Analyzes possible concepts of education within the framework of such learning environments. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Children, Early Childhood Education, Educational History