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Fotini Bonoti; Maria Papadopoulou; Panagiota Lytaki – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2024
The present study aimed to investigate whether preschoolers can recognise the emotions conveyed in panels of the Asterix comic series. The sample consisted of 40 pre-school children (22 boys and 18 girls), aged 52-72 months. They were presented with 8 panels, which in pairs conveyed the emotions of happiness, sadness, fear and anger. Adult raters…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cartoons, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Mouzaki, Angeliki; Spyropoulou, Elli; Ralli, Asimina; Antoniou, Faye; Diamanti, Vassiliki; Papaioannou, Sophia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study investigated component skills in oral language development utilizing and validating a new assessment battery in a large (N = 800) and representative sample of Greek students 4-7 years of age. Method: All participants enrolled in public schools from four geographical regions (Attica, Thessaly, Macedonia, and Crete) that varied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
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Poulou, Maria S.; Bassett, Hideko H. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2018
Even very young children think about their own and others' behavior, including emotions. Such cognitions and emotions about the self and others convey information that is crucial to social interactions and relationships. The current study based on an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition in social information processing (SIP) aimed…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Vasilia Christidou; Anastasia Dimitriou; Nikos Barkas; Maria Papadopoulou; Stergios Grammenos – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
While little is known about how young children understand noise and its environmental aspects, this topic is suggested to be included in science curricula from early years on. To investigate if and to what extent preschool children's level of noise awareness could be improved the 'Young Noise Researchers' educational scenario was designed,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Acoustics, Intervention, Student Research
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Tsiakara, Angeliki A.; Digelidis, Nikolaos M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The aim of this study was to explore preschool children's perceptions of their performance under competitive and non-competitive conditions (NCC) and their satisfaction. Eighty preschool children (40 boys, 40 girls) aged 4-6 years (M age?=?5.48, SD?=?0.57) took part in this study. Preschool children built a tower under competitive and NCC and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Competition, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Ergazaki, Marida; Alexaki, Aspa; Papadopoulou, Chrysa; Kalpakiori, Marieleni – Science & Education, 2014
This paper aims at exploring (a) whether preschoolers recognize that offspring share physical traits with their parents due to birth and behavioural ones due to nurture, and (b) whether they seem ready to explain shared physical traits with a "pre-biological" causal model that includes the contribution of both parents and a rudimentary…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Heredity, Genetics, Parents
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Guo, Juan; Zhang, XiangKui; Wang, Yong; Xeromeritou, Aphrodite – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The researchers studied humour among Chinese and Greek preschool children in relation to cognitive development. The sample included 55 Chinese children and 50 Greek children ages 4½ to 5½ years. Results showed that both Chinese and Greek children's humour recognition were significantly and positively correlated to their cognitive development, but…
Descriptors: Humor, Young Children, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries