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Narrative Skills
As children we must learn how to interact with the world we were delivered into. One type of children's education comes in the form of literary training. Children must learn to conceptualize meanings from a set of two dimensional objects as well as the story being read or told. Upon the surface this seems like a fairly straight forward process. However, as this article points out, when the process of learning is dissected it is definitely more complex than it may first appear. For example, it takes a high level of cognition to realize that a certain two dimensional object represents a three dimensional counterpart in the real world. Connecting the association between a two dimensional representation of a pig on a page and a living, breathing pig on a farm takes quite a bit of mental ingenuity.
This article highlights many of the subtle aspects and processes that occur during child development in regards to literary events. Literary events are events that require that a child, or even an individual, process abstract representations often found in books or other mediums to be able to function under culturally construed situations. For example, street signs tell individuals how to function under certain circumstances to ensure their safety as well as the safety of others. A stop sign...
Learning how to find meaning in such a situation is an important stage in childhood development in which the entire society could benefit from understanding the process and possibly facilitating such development in children.
Different Approaches
The author studied two different approaches or schools when conducting the investigation. The first group that was researched was the mainstream communities which were often composed of middle class families that were considered traditional in most aspects. This group was believed to make consistent use of bedtime stories in a nightly ritual. Primarily mothers would read to the children and interact with them in a way to facilitate the children decontextualizing various pieces of information. This form of learning is also central to many mainstream early education programs in which teachers ask students to provide feedback and guide students to pre-specified answers.
The other community of parents represents towns from neighboring communities in which are considered something less than mainstream. They are composed of individuals who have worked in textile mills or have lived off the land such as farmers for example. These communities have cultures that are specific…
Children's Literature Timeline LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: A SELECTIVE TIMELINE Charles Perrault. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe: Les Contes de ma Mere l'Oie. (Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose.) France. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Kinder- und Haus-marchen. (Children's and Household Tales.) Germany. Hans Christian Andersen. Eventyr Fortalte For Born (Fairy Tales Told To Children.) First and Second Volumes. Denmark. Heinrich Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter (Shock-Headed Peter). Germany. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in
Learning Strategies for Adult Learners Adults do not learn in the same ways children learn. Traditional pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning are not always applicable to adults in learning environments. Teaching adults requires the implementation of special accommodations, an understanding of the ways in which adults learn, and some measure of flexibility and understanding for the efforts that adults make to continue in higher education. Adult learners are typically people
16). In comparing a number of literary elements in one story, Smith and Wiese (2006) contend that at times, when attempting to transform an old story into a modern multicultural version, cultural meanings of the original story may be lost. In turn, the literature does not subject the reader to another culture. For instance, in the story about the fisherman, that Smith and Wiese access, the plot remains similar plot,
Curriculum: Catch a Little Fox CURRICULUM: CAT IN THE HAT Good afternoon Judge Jacobs, how is everybody doing? Today, we have a case that needs to be defended. Recently, my client, Donna Mills, used a book called "Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss. Today, I stand to support the book. The reason for this defense is simple. The children's book is being accused of having not developing phonemic awareness. As we
In as much as intelligence is influenced by experience, the elderly have opportunity to acquire and process enormous amounts of information. While short-term memory may be affected by attention and emotions, the corpus of information available to an older adult is substantial, and -- unless they show signs of progressive or absolute deterioration as in dementia -- they tend to be skeptical with a broad base of human behavior
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, parent or sibling may often be overwhelming. For adolescents, the death of person close to them may prove much more traumatic as it can disrupt adolescent development. Diana Mahoney (2008), with the