...Natalia Kucirkova; Lucy Rodriguez-Leon Our systematic qualitative analysis advances the field of human development with an integrative review of sensory research in children’s reading of books and e-books. Based on a systematic literature review of 35 papers, we qualitatively synthesise...

... the methodologies that are currently used in this field, we recall the relevance of pragmatic analyses of conversations. We then identify several possible methodologies for probing and finely analysing the emergence of children’s new thinking, by cross-referencing third-person (i.e., from the researcher’s point...

... review developmental and social theories and related research outlining children’s and adolescents’ intergroup attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. The discussion then moves to social agents that help shape children’s and adolescents’ attitudes regarding these relations. Theory-driven, empirically...

...Andrew D. Coppens; Lucia Alcalá; Rebeca Mejía-Arauz; Barbara Rogoff Children's views on their household work as mutual contribution within the family may encourage their initiative in pitching in. We asked 9- and 10-year-old children from a Mexican city how they viewed child participation in family...

...Barbara Rogoff This article formulates a way of organizing learning opportunities in which children are broadly integrated in the activities of their families and communities and learn by attentively contributing to the endeavors around them, in a multifaceted process termed “Learning by Observing...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Animals Children Human-animal interaction Positive youth development If numbers are any indication, then it appears animals play an important part in people's lives. Roughly three-quarters...

...Paul L. Harris Most research on children’s conception of death has probed their understanding of its biological aspects: its inevitability, irreversibility and terminal impact. Yet many adults subscribe to a religious conception implying that death marks the beginning of a new life. Two recent...

...Agneta Brucefors; Ingvar Johannesson; Petter Karlberg; Ingrid Klackenberg-Larsson; Henrik Lichtenstein; Inga Svenberg From a longitudinal sample of 202 children studied from birth to 8 years of age, two extreme groups were selected. One group had a more rapid development than normal and the other...

...Brian Sutton-Smith; Gilbert Botvin; Daniel Mahony The paper examines structural paradigms for the analysis of narrative drawn from Levi-Strauss , Propp and Piaget . It shows that all are successful in differentiating between the stories freely told by children of different age levels ranging from 2...

...John W. Gyr; Richmond Willey; David Gordon; Richard H. Kubo This study explores whether perceptual processes of children can be viewed within a Structuralist frame of reference and, whether the concept of the group of transformations, and related notions can be used to formulate perceptual...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Children Essentialism Intergroup attitudes Power Social groups Stereotyping Commentary Human Development 2007;50:328 332 DOI: 10.1159...