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Poverty remains an urgent crisis worldwide. In the United States, 28.6 million children live in low-income families and 12.7 million children live in poor families. In nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (oecd), 47 million children liv…
House as a Mirror of Self is an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. It is not about architecture, or decorating styles, or real estate, but about the more subtle bonds…
Many of you reading this book are enrolled in an educational psychology course as part of your professional preparation for teaching, counseling, speech therapy, nursing, or psychology. The material in this text should be of interest to everyone who is concerned about education …
Previous examinations of young children's political cognition have mainly followed a socialization framework, through large-scale surveys of children's developing comprehension of the adult political world as a knowledge-goal. However, this research was formulated in the belief …
A series of studies were conducted with the aim of showing that the Representational Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992) can be used a general model of cognitive development. In this thesis, 3 aspects of the RR model were explored. The first set of experiments invol…
This thesis sought to conceptualise children’s spelling and reading representations in a novel way based upon the implicit-explicit framework proposed by the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The children studied were aged 4-7 years. Existing mod…
The current research examined whether nonword repetition (NWR) tasks, designed to measure phonological short-term memory, are also influenced by familiarity with lexical representation of a given language. In Study 1, children with and without exposure to Hebrew were administere…
The ideological gap between Western and Marxist psychology is of paradigmatic proportions, and few attempts were made to bridge it. However, recently, Vygotsky's/Luria's cognitive psychology has overshadowed Piagetian psychology, but in spite of this new prominence, Vygotskean p…
The purpose of this study was to research the influences of early childhood care providers’ characteristics (education, years of experience, and professional development) on Fragile Family children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes in Kindergarten. An Expost facto secondary co…
The liturgical event--multi-sensory in the interpersonal formation that occurs--is a meaningful developmental experience for infants. This project explores how the infant's engagement in interpersonal communion, supported by clinical and theoretical findings in developmental psy…
The presence of and/or search for meaning has divergent and salient outcomes for individuals’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Although numerous domains of meaning have been examined, the literature on the meaning of sex is sparse and lacks a quantitative measure. In …
Vygotsky is widely considered one of the most significant and influential psychologists of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, true appreciation of his theories has been hindered by a lack of understanding of the background to his thought. "Vygotsky's Developmental and Educatio…
Language and listening skills, cognitive development, social skills, early reading and problem-solving skills can all be enriched by reading to your child. This book is a practical guide to assist parents, carers and students in their selection of books for young children, inclu…
This book serves as a comprehensive review the current state-of-the-art in educational psychology and applied cognitive science. The chapter authors, who are all leading researchers in this field, provide reviews of contemporary discoveries related to educational research that a…
To enable educators, parents, and policymakers to make sound decisions about programs for young children, the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy was established in 1997 by the National Research Council to study a broad range of research on early learning and development and t…