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Colorado Children's Campaign, 2008
Because of the substantial impact on outcomes for children, states and school districts across the country are addressing issues surrounding early learning opportunities and school readiness for young children. Full-day kindergarten plays an important role in both. Colorado has made significant investments in full-day kindergarten as a means of…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Learning Activities, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods
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Enright, Robert D.; Sutterfield, Sara J. – Child Development, 1980
Two classrooms of first graders (N=40) were administered Damon's moral judgment measure, Shure and Spivack's social problem solving measure, and the Stanford-Binet vocabulary. Concurrently, two observers in the children's school environment recorded incidences of successful resolutions of interactions, amount of derogation, and the number of times…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conflict Resolution, Elementary School Students, Moral Development
Singer, Elly – 2001
This paper asserts that teachers need to understand the logic of young children's behavior in their joint play and in their conflicts in order to respond sensitively, and that children construct logic-in-action (procedural knowledge) long before they are able to verbalize their logic in narratives. The basic assumption of the paper is that there…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
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Kruger, Ann Cale; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates whether children's use of reasoning differs in child-child and adult-child discussions of moral dilemmas. Supports Piaget's contention that moral discussions with peers feature a more spontaneous use of reasoning than do discussions with adults. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Development, Conflict Resolution
Segal, Marilyn; Bardige, Betty – 2000
Children between the ages of 5 and 8 years undergo profound transitions in cognitive, social, and emotional functioning as well as and in their educational and peer experiences. This book, the fifth in the "Your Child at Play" series, describes the types of play activities children engage in as they explore ideas, interact with friends…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childhood Interests, Children, Cognitive Development
Fitzell, Susan Gingras – 1997
Noting that teaching conflict education is not something that can be done in a set of isolated lessons in a curriculum program, this book discusses a comprehensive, developmentally appropriate approach to conflict education. The book is organized into two parts. The first part explains the basic underlying philosophy proposed in the book, and the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology