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Direct linkMorrone, Michelle Henault; Matsuyama, Yumi – Childhood Education, 2012
Throughout the world, young children are introduced to some form of nursery rhymes. In Japan, the first type of rhyme a child encounters is called "warabeuta"--songs created through play. The English translation fails to accurately capture the degree to which "warabeuta" include body movement, touch, and interaction with other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Nursery Rhymes, Educational Principles
Lester, Neal A. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
This essay explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual manifestations of heterosexism in childhood education. While there is abundant children's literature dealing with gay and lesbian parents of presumably straight children, little exists in this literature that directly addresses a child's developing gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientations.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Social Bias
Briggs, Nancy E. – Speech Teacher, 1973
The nursery rhyme as a form of persuasion and a way of improving children's language choices is explored within the context of the historical devices distinctive to the genre. (CH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Language Acquisition, Nursery Rhymes
Download full textFrecklington, Trish; Stanley, Peter – Teachers and Curriculum, 2006
The risk and resilience framework (Stanley, 2003) views developmental outcomes as the consequences of young people's responses to the risk and protective factors that are operating in their social settings. Students in the School of Education at The University of Waikato at Tauranga can have the opportunity to apply the framework to models and…
Descriptors: Risk, Resilience (Psychology), Nursery Rhymes, Folk Culture
Kenney, Susan – General Music Today, 2005
The article considers nursery rhymes as the foundation for learning. It is said that nursery rhymes carry all the parts of language that lead to speaking and reading. Because rhymes are short, they are easy for children to repeat, and become some of the first sentences children utter. The rhymes expand vocabulary, exposing children to words they…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, Music Education, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedHowle, Mary Jeanette – Children Today, 1989
Around the world, the singing of lullabies and reciting of nursery rhymes foster children's development and show parents' love for their infants and young children. (BB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Listening Skills
Farber, Betty, Ed. – 1997
Parents and teachers may often have wondered how preschoolers learn, or why certain things, events, or people are more interesting to them than others? This book provides information on how young children learn, and offers activities to encourage emerging literacy, promote creativity and imagination, and enhance knowledge and development in music,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Child Development, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing
