ERIC Number: EJ753399
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jan
Pages: 28
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 24
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
Children Teaching Children
Williams, Pia
Early Child Development and Care, v177 n1 p43-70 Jan 2007
This study describes children's awareness of what it means to teach a game to a peer where the act of teaching becomes expression of the child's possible awareness. Awareness is defined as the attention to different aspects of the teaching process shown by the teaching child, sometimes through their own verbal reflection. This implies an interpretation of the child's spontaneous actions and expressions in a specific situation, which the child chooses to focus on. The interpretation resulted in a qualitative description of four children's ways of teaching a peer the game of Chinese Checkers. The idea of teaching someone something was observed in all four of the teaching children but it is not a homogeneous process. All four teaching children show a deliberate goal to bring about a change in the learning child. The children have different goals with the task and differ from each other depending on what their goals are. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peer Teaching, Games, Elementary School Students, Learning Strategies, Phenomenology, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Sweden

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