Childhood and Gender

Directed Time Tasks for this week :)
I've have done a key word search on childhood and gender, and found some interesting journal articles through Google Scholar on aspects of gender, they focus mainly on the social construction of gender identity.

Fagot, BL., (1985), Gender identity: Some thoughts on an old concept, Journal of the american academy of child psychiatry, 24(6),  pp.684-688.

Green, R., (1968), Childhood Cross-Gender Identification, Journal of nervous and mental disease, 147(5), pp.500-509

Ruble, D. N., Taylor, L. J., Cyphers, L., Greulich, F. K., Lurye, L. E. and Shrout, P. E. (2007), The Role of Gender Constancy in Early Gender Development. Child Development, 78(4), pp.1121–1136.

Also, I have found these additional books not on our reading list through the Warwick Catalogue for further reading.

Martin, B., (2011). Children at play: Learning gender in the early years, Dulles : Stylus Publishing.

Root, AK., Denham, SA., eds., (2010). Focus on gender: parent and child contributions to socialization of emotional competence, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.

Lastly, I have found a YouTube clip showing three panelists, including Dr. Ken Zucker a controversial gender identity professional, discussing and giving their views on typical and atypical gender identity in children.

A useful ICT Journal

I've found a really useful article in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, for the ICT and child presentation group. A very interesting article with plenty of research into the effects of ICT on development :)

http://0-onlinelibrary.wiley.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/doi/10.1046/j.0266-4909.2003.00016.x/full

PLOWMAN, L. and STEPHEN, C., 2003. A 'Benign Addiction'? Research on ICT and Pre-School Children. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19(2), pp. 149-164.

Now.. The History of Childhood

I am now attempting one of our Directed Time Tasks,
Google Key word searches for The History of Childhood.

2006, Re-inventing childhood, (Online) Available at: http://www.open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html (Accessed 8 October 2011).

Corbett, B., 1985, Centuries of Childhood, (Online) Available at: http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/children/aries.html (Accessed 8 October 2011).
- Overview of the Centuries of Childhood book by Philippe Aries.

Vandergriff, J., 2002, Factors of Influencing The Development of The Idea of Childhood in Europe and America, (Online) Available at: http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/mitc/vandergr/201%20Web%20site/History%20of%20Childhood.htm (accessed 8 October 2011).

And now three further reading references:

Heywood, C., 2010, Centuries of Childhood: An Anniversary—and an Epitaph? The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 3(3), pp.341-365.

Hanawalt, B., 1995, Growing up in medieval London: The experience of childhood in history. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Walvin, J., 1982, A child's world: a social history of English childhood, 1800-1914. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Now that referencing was difficult! So, sorry everyone if it's not right.

Theories of Child Development

My second post today :)

My reflections on Fiona's lesson last week.
Initially when we were told to explore the areas of development (P.I.L.E.S) and the components of these, I was a bit confused and did not understand. But after a little bit of help from Fiona I was well on my way :).
I find the theories of child development very interesting and have chosen to focus on Cognitive development and Piaget's theory for next week.
Piaget believed children were active in their own learning, building their own perception and understanding of things. By the child linking past experiences with their present ones, they would start to get a true concept of the world at a very early age.

Piaget's stages of Cognitive development:
- Sensori-motor Stage: Birth to two years
- Pre-Operational Stage: From around 18 months to seven years
- Concrete Operational Period: Seven to Eleven years
- Formal Operational Stage: Twelve years onwards


I have found a video on YouTube that gives an overview of his theory and outlines these stages of development.

More Resources for ICT and the child

I've been very busy researching more into ICT and the child, looking for information on the impact of ICT on a child's learning.
I have found two interesting Becta Reviews:

A review of evidence on the use of ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- If you Download the PDF file on this page and look at Chapter 5 pages 37-42, it gives some good information and relevant research. 

ICT in the home and children's preparation for primary school
- By clicking this link it should start to download the PDF for you. In this report it lists and explains the Learning competences for ICT, pages 18-19.

ICT in the Foundation Stage: A Position Paper 
- I have also found a Blatchford and Blatchford report, that is rather long but has interesting research.

And a very short Becta ICT Excellence video, showing how a primary has put the learners needs at the heart of its practice!