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Direct linkTang, Xiaowei; Yang, Liu; Levin, Daniel M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this study, we explore how cross-linguistic differences can contribute to children's scientific thinking. We compared first and third grade Chinese students' pre-instructional ideas of the earth expressed in clinical interviews with that of their English-speaking and Greek-speaking counterparts (as recorded in the literature). Inspired by a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Download full textDraganoudi, Aikaterini; Kaliampos, George; Lavidas, Konstantinos – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
The aim of the current paper is to investigate the traces of socio-cognitive influences in kindergarten teachers' representations about the practices they tend to follow when they develop Natural Sciences activities in kindergarten. A quantitative approach was used, with the research tool being an electronic questionnaire that was completed online…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods, Natural Sciences
Ravanis, Konstantinos; Kaliampos, George; Pantidos, Panagiotis – Education Sciences, 2021
The aim of the current study was to examine the way in which preschool children deal with the concept of sound. For this purpose, a study was carried out in the context of detecting and categorizing the mental representations among young children of sounds which propagate through space from source to the receiver. Specifically, 91 preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Scientific Concepts, Acoustics, Schemata (Cognition)
Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten teachers' and children's perceptions of their relationships following a person-centred approach, and to describe patterns of relationships between them. 67 Kindergarten teachers and 403 children completed two measures designed to explore their perceptions of their relations. Four patterns of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Stephanou, Georgia; Kyridis, Argyris – International Education Studies, 2012
This study examined (a) students' ability self-perceptions, perceptions of domain-difficulty, value beliefs, experienced emotions in lectures and performance in the courses taught by the perceived as extremely effective and ineffective teachers, (b) the role of ability self-perceptions, perceived domain-difficulty and value beliefs in the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Concept, Beliefs
Guo, Juan; Zhang, XiangKui; Wang, Yong; Xeromeritou, Aphrodite – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The researchers studied humour among Chinese and Greek preschool children in relation to cognitive development. The sample included 55 Chinese children and 50 Greek children ages 4½ to 5½ years. Results showed that both Chinese and Greek children's humour recognition were significantly and positively correlated to their cognitive development, but…
Descriptors: Humor, Young Children, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
