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Early Predictors of Mathematics Achievement and Mathematics Learning Difficulties
IntroductionMathematics difficulties are widespread. Up to 10% of students are diagnosed with a learning disability in mathematics at some point in their school careers.1,2 Many more learners struggle...
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Young Children's Peer Relations: Links with Early Developing Anxiety and Depression
IntroductionThe peer group represents an important and unique context for the development of a wide range of skills and competencies in early childhood.1 Simply stated, ‘playing with friends’...
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Young Children's Peer Relations: Links with Early Developing Anxiety and Depression
IntroductionThe peer group represents an important and unique context for the development of a wide range of skills and competencies in early childhood.1 Simply stated, ‘playing with friends’...
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Play Pedagogy and Playworlds
IntroductionThe cultural perspective on play offers us rich ground for developing play pedagogy, as this perspective shows how play and culture are connected. This entry focuses on one play pedagogy...
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Tobacco Consumption During Pregnancy and its Association with Psychosocial Child Development
IntroductionSelf-report studies reveal that 7 to 25% of women of childbearing age in the United States endorse current smoking, including the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), which...
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Immigration
Moving to a new country is a significant event in a child’s life. It is important to have a good understanding of the factors — both in the host society and in the immigrant family — that create...
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Maternal Depression
IntroductionMaternal depression poses a significant burden, both to the individual and to the broader relational context.1,2,3,4 When a mother is struggling with depression, important relationships...
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Culture
Culture shapes experiences and influences children’s development. This topic aims to show how child development and culture are connected, how these influences manifest themselves, and the effects...
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Learning Trajectories in Early Mathematics – Sequences of Acquisition and Teaching
Introduction Children follow natural developmental progressions in learning and development. For example, children first learn to crawl, then walk, run, skip, and jump with increasing speed and...
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Culture and Policy in Early Childhood Development
Introduction Policies are cultural products. They are generated using concepts shared by members of a cultural group and implemented through culturally-based institutions. Their effects play out in...