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Researching Memories about Starting School: Autobiographical Narratives as a Methodological Approach
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Direct linkTurunen, Tuija A.; Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
This article reports on methodological issues in the study of autobiographical narratives about transition to school within a life course approach. The data consist of 89 Australian participants' recollections of starting school between 1928 and 1995. These narratives are considered as life reviews and part of the story of "continuing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
Spencer, John P.; Austin, Andrew; Schutte, Anne R. – Cognitive Development, 2012
We examine the contributions of dynamic systems theory to the field of cognitive development, focusing on modeling using dynamic neural fields. After introducing central concepts of dynamic field theory (DFT), we probe empirical predictions and findings around two examples--the DFT of infant perseverative reaching that explains Piaget's A-not-B…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Systems Approach, Models, Theories
Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A.; Riggs, Kevin J. – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated a test of strategic reasoning (the Windows task) that in different studies has yielded contrasting pictures of young children's executive abilities [Russell, J., Mauthner, N., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991). "The 'windows task' as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects." "British Journal of…
Descriptors: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Preschool Children, Inferences
