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Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale – Primary Science Review, 2004
In England the National Curriculum does not specifically mention the excretory system at key stages 1 and 2. Research by Reiss and Tunnicliffe (2001, 2002) has shown that children's knowledge of the organs and organ systems in their bodies increases with age but remains incomplete, even at maturity, unless they specialise in studying biology. The…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
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Jackson, Emil – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2004
In this paper, I describe the first 2 years of intensive psychotherapy of a multiply traumatized 5-year-old girl. I explore some of the ways in which violent and traumatic experiences were re-lived in the therapy and how they impacted on both patient and therapist. Within the discussion and illustrated by clinical vignettes, I consider the…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Psychotherapy, Trauma, Young Children
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Szekely, Anna; Jacobsen, Thomas; D'Amico, Simona; Devescovi, Antonella; Andonoa, Elena; Herron, Daniel; Lu, Ching Ching; Pechmann, Thomas; Pleh, Csaba; Wicha, Nicole; Federmeier, Kara; Gerdjikova, Irina; Gutierrez, Gabriel; Hung, Daisy, Hsu, Jeanne; Iyer, Gowri; Kohnert, Kathryn; Mehotcheva, Teodora; Orozco-Figueroa, Araceli; Tzeng, Angela; Tzeng, Ovid; Arevalo, Analia; Vargha, Andras; Butler, Andrew C.; Buffington, Robert; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Picture naming is a widely used technique in psycholinguistic studies. Here, we describe new on-line resources that our project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/. The website provides access to a wide range of picture stimuli and related norms in seven languages. Picture…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Familiarity, Norms, Language Acquisition
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Lambert, E. Beverley – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2005
This paper describes a longitudinal study undertaken with 40 pre-schoolers during their last six months in an early childhood centre and their first six months at school. The study presents an investigation of the pathways that child drawers and painters make towards representational depictions. As such its primary focus is on cognitive processes.…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Preschool Children
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Piquer-Píriz, Ana – English Teaching Forum, 2006
The author discusses the benefits of applying cognitive linguistics, L1 acquisition, and neo-Vygotskian (Vygotsky) approaches to the teaching of a second language to young learners, using the example of teaching the preposition "on." The author briefly reviews how prepositions are taught to adult learners and the challenges of teaching…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ring, Kathy – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2006
This paper draws upon evidence from a three-year longitudinal study of young children drawing across home, pre-school and school. The study shows how the belief systems of significant adults and more able peers/siblings impact upon the child's access to, use of and beliefs about drawing. Concentrating upon the children when in the Foundation Stage…
Descriptors: Mothers, Freehand Drawing, Parent Influence, Young Children
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Buldu, Mehmet – Educational Research, 2006
Background: Since the 1950s, there has been a growing body of research dealing with perceptions children have of scientists. Typically, research studies in this area have utilized children's drawings in an effort to discern what those perceptions are. Studies assessing perceptions children have of scientists have shown that children have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Young Children, Socioeconomic Status
Scott, Peter T. – 1995
The teaching of science demands the regular use of diagrams and sketches which may be formal or informal. This document outlines some basic guidelines, principles, and suggestions for preparing these diagrams. Topics covered include: basic drawing, shapes, lines and angles, contrast and shading, and lettering. (JRH)
Descriptors: Art, Diagrams, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Moss, Deborah L. – 1993
Through a review of the literature on art therapy, a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the arts and art therapy for young children, and a survey of various techniques and uses of art therapy, this paper examines how children translate their perceptual world into their drawings. The paper notes that art therapy is, primarily, a means…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Counseling Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Dukette, Dianne; Stiles, Joan – 1991
Previous literature on children's visual pattern perception has suggested that preschool children may process hierarchical forms in a manner different from that of older children and adults. Data from some studies suggested that children are holistic processors of pattern information, while other studies characterized children as piecemeal…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1983
A study was conducted to examine the interrelationships between drawing, early writing, and the context of talk in which both phenomena occur. Participant observation methodology was used in a self-contained public school kindergarten in order to gather daily data during a 3-month period. Specifically, children freely drew and wrote in an…
Descriptors: Child Language, Freehand Drawing, Handwriting, Kindergarten
Demery, Marie – 1987
Adult students enrolled in day and evening drawing classes can be introduced to two-dimensional composition through an exercise that combines the thumbnail sketch and the big-to-small principle. The exercise is composed of five steps and simple self-evaluation criteria that help students determine whether they understood and achieved the steps.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Education
Sadowski, Eloise N. – Elementary English, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Art Expression, Artists, Books
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Korzenik, Diana – Studies in Art Education, 1973
In this study, visual representations and childhood egocentricity were explored to see how young children found their simple representations adequate and sufficient at one time and then progressively increased their own demands for comprehensibility, accommodating to the perspective of the viewer. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Freehand Drawing
Trimm, Wayne – Communicator, 1974
The article discusses outdoor drawing, giving a brief history and its applications in today's classrooms. The use of grids to help students gain an eye for proportions and spatial relationships is emphasized. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Color, Creative Activities, Freehand Drawing
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