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Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
Foreword by Renilde Montessori 1. An Answer to the Crisis in Education 2. The Impact of Movement on Learning and Cognition 3. Choice and Perceived Control 4. Interest in Human Learning 5. Extrinsic…
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The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence.
Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to positive…
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Pretend play skills and the child's theory of mind.
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This paper investigates whether pretend play is an area of advanced understanding with reference to 3 skills that are implicated in both pretend play and a theory of mind: the ability to represent one object as two things at once, the able to see one objects as representing another, and the abilityto represent mental representations.
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Synchrony in the Onset of Mental-State Reasoning
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Synchrony in the onset of mentalistic reasoning is found, with children crossing the false-belief milestone at approximately 5 years of age in every culture studied.
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Preschool children's development in classic Montessori, supplemented Montessori, and conventional programs.
  • A. Lillard
  • Psychology, Education
    Journal of school psychology
  • 1 June 2012
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Evaluating Montessori Education
An analysis of students9 academic and social scores compares a Montessori school with other elementary school education programs.
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The Immediate Impact of Different Types of Television on Young Children's Executive Function
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Just 9 minutes of viewing a fast-paced television cartoon had immediate negative effects on 4-year-olds' executive function, and parents should be aware that fast- paced television shows could at least temporarily impair young children's executive function.
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Ethnopsychologies: cultural variations in theories of mind.
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Several aspects of European American theory of mind with other cultural models, as suggested by experiments and ethnographies, are compared with the purpose of illuminating the degree to which there is variation in folk psychology.
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Pretend Play as Twin Earth: A Social-Cognitive Analysis☆
Abstract Pretend play appears to be important to a theory of mind, but exactly how or why has been controversial. One widely entertained hypothesis about why pretense is important to understanding…
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Playful Learning and Montessori Education.
Although Montessori education is often considered a form of playful learning, Maria Montessori herself spoke negatively about a major component of playful learning-pretend play, or fantasy-for young…
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