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Alesi, Marianna; Costa, Sebastiano; Bianco, Antonino; Pepi, Annamaria – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Structured motor tasks may affect cognitive development by creating a cognitively challenging "enriched environment', giving opportunity for social cooperation, increasing the joy to learn through play, improving the sense of mastery and competence. The study investigated the association between motor and cognitive exercises, through a…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Kindergarten, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
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Giannandrea, Lorella; Gratani, Francesca; Renieri, Alessandra – Research on Education and Media, 2020
This article reports on the results of a teacher training course in which 41 teachers, working together with three university researchers, experienced a different way to engage in meaningful teaching and learning activities in design, coding and robotics. The course was run in an Italian school during the lock-down period of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Robotics, Programming
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Muratori, Pietro; Lochman, John E.; Bertacchi, Iacopo; Giuli, Consuelo; Guarguagli, Elena; Pisano, Simone; Gallani, Anna; Mammarella, Irene C. – School Psychology International, 2019
The Coping Power Program has been adapted as a universal prevention model (Coping Power Universal) aimed to reduce children's behavioral difficulties in Italian primary and nursery classes. The current study aimed to determine whether the version of the Universal Coping Power for pre-schoolers could reduce behavioral problems in school and home…
Descriptors: Coping, Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems