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Francesco Poli; Marlene Meyer; Rogier B. Mars; Sabine Hunnius – Child Development, 2025
Humans are driven by an intrinsic motivation to learn, but the developmental origins of curiosity-driven exploration remain unclear. We investigated the computational principles guiding 4-year-old children's exploration during a touchscreen game (N = 102, F = 49, M = 53, primarily white and middle-class, data collected in the Netherlands from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Learning Motivation, Discovery Learning
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Michel Fayol; Céline Darnon; Ingrid Claracq; Mickaël Jury – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Prior research highlights the role of number manipulation activities in fostering the early mathematical development of children. This study (N = 1,491) explored the effect of a bear-themed intervention on enhancing arithmetic abilities in kindergarten students. Utilizing a pre- and post-test design, the study compared the advancements of children…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Mathematics, Early Intervention
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Edgar P. Rodríguez-Vidales; Izamara Santos-Flores; Jesús M. Santos-Flores; Mara I. Garza-Rodríguez; Ofelia M. Alvarado-Medina; Denise Garza-Carrillo; Roberto Montes de Oca-Luna; Alma R. Marroquín-Escamilla – Infants and Young Children, 2025
Despite its importance, studies involving developmental delay remain low in the last 10 years in Latin. The objective of the present study was to estimate and compare the prevalence of developmental delay during 2019-2022 in Mexican children under 5 years of age. This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Nuevo Leon, Mexico (n = 2,951).…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Incidence
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Sarah E. Holmes; Emma Olorenshaw; Ann Casson – British Journal of Religious Education, 2025
This phenomenological study examines lived experiences and perceptions of Christian parents of young children to investigate their approaches to faith activity and nurture and the extent to which this includes authenticity of welcome for young children in the modern-day church. Online survey data was analysed thematically through the lens of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Churches, Religious Factors
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Yuchen Pan; Yongtao Xiao – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
The study aimed to explore spoken language and executive function (EF) characteristics in 3-5-year-old prelingually deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, and evaluate the impact of demographic variables and EF on spoken language skills. 48 DHH children and 48 typically developing children who use auditory-oral communication were recruited. All…
Descriptors: Young Children, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Executive Function
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Kenneth Pettersen; Hans Christian Arnseth; Kenneth Silseth – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
New sociomaterial and performative directions in literacy research on digital technologies and play in early childhoods may complicate the established concept of digital play. This study contributes to this line of research by empirically expanding on the concept of the postdigital. In the study, postdigital refers to how both "digital"…
Descriptors: Video Games, Play, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
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Stadler Elmer, Stefanie – British Journal of Music Education, 2022
Through micro-genetic analysis of early singing, I describe and explain the complexity of song as an elementary cultural expression. For educators, it is important to understand the key role of song with and by young children as a means to convey feelings and musico-linguistic rules. Song consists of melody and lyrics, both of which are connected…
Descriptors: Singing, Young Children, Music, Cultural Activities
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Pilonieta, Paola; Hathaway, Jennifer I. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article describes academic conversations in kindergarten classrooms and how they vary across two different instructional activities: teacher-led and student-led book conversations. Conversations about texts have been recommended to improve the comprehension of kindergarten through third graders. The research was conducted in a K-8 urban,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Learner Engagement, Classroom Communication
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Lawrence, Penny – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
This article generates two dialogical theorisations of young children's encounters in more-than-human worlds involving metaphor. The first theorisation devises metaphor as an entry point into the dialogues of more-than-humans and includes rare attention to metaphors as multimodal intra-action. The second theorisation provides an alternative to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Figurative Language, Dialogs (Language), Theories
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Quane, Kate; Chinnappan, Mohan; Trenholm, Sven – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Understanding children's attitudes towards mathematics provides insights into their lived mathematical experience and engagement. Despite the considerable amount of research into students' attitudes toward mathematics, limited research has been conducted into "young children's" attitudes toward mathematics (YCATM). Within this limited…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Mathematics, Freehand Drawing
Doré R. LaForett; Elizabeth Villegas; Zipi Diamond; Cassie Simons Gerson – Child Trends, 2023
In recent years, North Carolina has engaged in efforts to improve the transition to kindergarten process for children, families, and teachers across the state. These efforts include the launch of North Carolina's Transition to Kindergarten Pilot project in 2018 and activities funded by the state's Preschool Development Grant Birth to Age 5 (NC's…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Kindergarten, Young Children, State Programs
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Carie Green – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Although nature is recognized as a setting that stimulates children's joy and wonder, few studies have examined the negative emotions that children experience in nature. This qualitative study explored 4-5-year-old Alaskan children's emotional, behavioural, and cognitive expressions of fear and anxiety during an outdoor excursion. Data was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Anxiety, Fear, Environment
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Zuofei Geng; Bei Zeng; A. Y. M. Atiquil Islam; Xuanyi Zhang; Jin Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) is widely recognized as a fundamental skill in the information age. However, within the context of Chinese early childhood education (ECE), CT remains underrepresented, with a notable gap in the availability of developmentally appropriate and rigorously validated assessment tools designed specifically for…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Test Validity, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan; Asaid Khateb – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the stability of phonological awareness (PA) and language achievements between kindergarten and first grade among Arabic-speaking children. Method: A total of 1,158 children were assessed in PA and language skills in both grades and were classified based on distinct and integrated achievements on PA and…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Language Skills, Arabic, Kindergarten
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Eloise West; Carolyn Baer; Lisa Yu; Darko Odic – Developmental Science, 2025
Metacognitive reasoning is central to decision-making. For every decision, we can also judge our trust in that decision, or our level of "confidence." The mechanisms and representations underlying reasoning about confidence remain debated. We test whether children rely on "processing fluency" to infer their own confidence: do…
Descriptors: Young Children, Stuttering, Linguistic Performance, Cues
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