Active learning from infancy to childhood : social motivation, cognition, and linguistic mechanisms /: social motivation, cognition, and linguistic mechanisms. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Megan M. Saylor, Patricia A. Ganea, editors.
• Editors: Saylor, Megan M; Ganea, Patricia Arilene
• Contents: Part I. Foundations of Active Learning -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Children Propel their Development -- Chapter 2. Curious Learners: Infants' Motivation to Learn Shapes -- Chapter 3. Taking Center Stage: Infants' Active Role in Language Learning -- Part II: Cognitive and Linguistic Skills that Enable Active Learning -- Chapter 4. Curiosity, Exploration, and Children's Understanding of Learning -- Chapter 5. The Process of Active Word Learning -- Chapter 6. Understanding When and How Explanation Promotes Exploration -- Chapter 7. Explanation Scaffolds Causal Learning and Problem Solving in Childhood -- Part III. Epistemic Trust: Selectivity in Children's Learning -- Chapter 8. Insights into Children's Testimonial Reasoning -- Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Selective Word Learning: Evidence and Implications -- Chapter 10. The Role of Linguistic Testimony in Children's Belief in the Existence of the Unobservable -- Part IV. Active Learning in Diverse Contexts -- Chapter 11. How Conversations with Parents May Help Children Learn to Separate the Sheep from the Goats (and the Robots) -- Chapter 12. Choosing to Learn: Evidence Evaluation for Active Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood -- Chapter 13. Bilingual Children: Active Language Learners as Language Brokers.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 370.15; Psychology; Active learning; Child development; Cognition in children; Language acquisition; Developmental psychology; Psycholinguistics; Educational psychology; EDUCATION -- Essays; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; EDUCATION -- Reference; Active learning; Child development; Cognition in children; Language acquisition; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Education -- Educational Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Educational psychology; Psychology -- Developmental -- General; Child & developmental psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319771823; 3319771825
• Related ISBNs: 9783319771816; 3319771817
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2018).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.