Full Description
This book acquaints readers with the principles and the possibilities of using visual models in the education of young children. Educational projects that use visual models as effective psychological tools that allow the child to develop abilities are very limited. Visual models can be used as a means for cognitive development, regulation of behavior, organization of productive activities, and for solving creative problems. The research in the field of cognitive development of preschoolers was greatly influenced by the works of L.S. Vygotsky, J. Piaget, and their followers. L.S. Vygotsky understood the general line of the development of children's consciousness as the transition from social plane to psychological one and related it to the mastering of cultural means, such as visual models. L. A. Venger considered a child's drawing as a visual model of an object; in construction activity, the child creates models of real structures from various blocks. All this served as the necessary basis for the use of visual models in the organization of educational processes in preschool institutions. Visual models can contribute to the enrichment of play activity and the development of thinking, visual-spatial activity, as well as the development of imagination. Studies have also identified the benefits of using visual models in work with children with special needs.
This book provides a great resource for students, specialists, practitioners and researchers.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Project-based activity and play: impact on child development.- Chapter 3. Children's Drawings as a model of the Preschooler's position in Family Relationships System: A Psychological Perspective.- Chapter 4. The semiotic mediation of children's modeling: The example of 9- to 10-year-old's physics reasoning.- Chapter 5. Mapping, orienting, and addressing: Children making and reading maps.- Chapter 6. The effectiveness of different types of sign/symbol mediation in teaching elementary mathematical concepts to older preschoolers with varying levels of executive function.- Chapter 7. The use of sensory ethalons and visual models by modern older preschoolers and their peers in the last third of the twentieth century.- Chapter 8. Play plans as cultural tools: Children taking control of their play in Tools of the Mind classrooms.- Chapter 9. The problem of visual modelling and self-regulation development in early childhood.- Chapter 10. L. Venger's Contribution to the Solution of the Problem of School Readiness.
