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The Practice of Listening to Children: The Challenges of Hearing Children Out in an Adult-Regulated World
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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
Children's Graphical Representations and Emergent Writing: Evidence from Children's Drawings
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Wu, Li-Yuan – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Previous research on children's drawing and writing focused on children's drawing and symbolization with syllabic languages, providing little information regarding young children's symbolization in drawing with a logo language. This study investigated children's emergent writing by examining qualitatively how children's writing takes place as…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Childrens Art, Written Language, Emergent Literacy
The Developmental Characteristics of Four- and Five-Year-Old Pre-Schoolers' Drawing: An Analysis of Scribbles, Placement Patterns, Emergent Writing, and Name Writing in Archived Spontaneous Drawing Samples
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Yang, Hui-Chin; Noel, Andrea M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
The drawings of 17 four- to five-year-old children from two points in time, age four and age five were analyzed. At both ages four and five, the most commonly used scribbles were single vertical lines, single horizontal lines, and single curved lines, whereas the two least used scribbles were spiral and circular lines spread out. The subjects in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Freehand Drawing, Writing Skills, Childrens Writing
Starting Strong: A Different Look at Children, Schools, and Standards.
Carini, Patricia F. – 2001
This book is a collection of essays in which the author counters high-stakes testing, the pathologizing of children, and the unrelenting critique of public schools with a persuasive account of how children actively make sense of the world and their experience through the making of works, such as drawings, constructions, and writings. The book is…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Childrens Art, Childrens Writing
You and Your Child: Practical Child Development Information from High/Scope for Parents, with Helpful Support Strategies To Use at Home.
Vogel, Nancy – 2001
This document is comprised of 12 issues of a High/Scope newsletter designed to give parents information on child development and to provide suggestions for ways parents can support their preschool child's development at home. Each issue focuses on one aspect of development or learning. The topics for the 12 issues are: (1) dramatic play; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childrens Art