Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood

✍ Scribed by Megan M. Saylor, Patricia A. Ganea

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents new findings on the role of active learning in infants’ and young children’s cognitive and linguistic development. Chapters discuss evidence-based models, identify possible neurological mechanisms supporting active learning, pinpoint children’s early understanding of learning, and trace children’s recognition of their own learning. Chapters also address how children shape their lexicon, covering a range of active learning practices including interactions with parents, teachers, and peers; curiosity and exploration during play; seeking information from other people and their surroundings; and asking questions. In addition, processes of selective learning are discussed, from learning new words and trusting others in acquiring information to weighing evidence and accepting ambiguity.
Topics featured in this book include:

• Infants’ active role in language learning.
  
• The process of active word learning.
  
• Understanding when and how explanation promotes exploration.
  
• How conversations with parents can affect children’s word associations.
  
• Evidence evaluation for active learning and teaching in early childhood.
  
• Bilingual children and their role as language brokers for their parents.

Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, educational psychology, and early childhood education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction: How Children Propel Development (Megan M. Saylor, Patricia A. Ganea)....Pages 3-11
Curious Learners: How Infants’ Motivation to Learn Shapes and Is Shaped by Infants’ Interactions with the Social World (Katarina Begus, Victoria Southgate)....Pages 13-37
Taking Center Stage: Infants’ Active Role in Language Leaning (Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Yana Kuchirko, Daniel D. Suh)....Pages 39-53
Front Matter ....Pages 55-55
Curiosity, Exploration, and Children’s Understanding of Learning (David M. Sobel, Susan M. Letourneau)....Pages 57-74
The Process of Active Word Learning (Sofia Jimenez, Yuyue Sun, Megan M. Saylor)....Pages 75-93
Understanding When and How Explanation Promotes Exploration (Judith H. Danovitch, Candice M. Mills)....Pages 95-112
Explanation Scaffolds Causal Learning and Problem Solving in Childhood (Justin T. A. Busch, Aiyana K. Willard, Cristine H. Legare)....Pages 113-127
Front Matter ....Pages 129-129
Insights into Children’s Testimonial Reasoning (Katherine E. Ridge, Annelise Pesch, Sarah Suárez, Melissa A. Koenig)....Pages 131-146
Mechanisms of Selective Word Learning: Evidence and Implications (Haykaz Mangardich, Mark A. Sabbagh)....Pages 147-166
The Role of Testimony in Children’s Belief in the Existence of the Unobservable (Ian L. Campbell, Kathleen H. Corriveau)....Pages 167-185
Front Matter ....Pages 187-187
How Conversations with Parents May Help Children Learn to Separate the Sheep from the Goats (and the Robots) (Jennifer L. Jipson, Danielle Labotka, Maureen A. Callanan, Susan A. Gelman)....Pages 189-212
Choosing to Learn: Evidence Evaluation for Active Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood (Elizabeth Bonawitz, Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Lapidow)....Pages 213-231
Bilingual Children: Active Language Learners as Language Brokers (Georgene L. Troseth, Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Israel Flores)....Pages 233-259
Back Matter ....Pages 261-265

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Educational Psychology