Nurturing Children's Concepts of Time and Chronology through Literature

Autor/inn/en	Harms, Jeanne McLain; Lettow, Lucille J.
Titel	Nurturing Children's Concepts of Time and Chronology through Literature
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 83 (2007) 4, S.211 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Time; Concept Formation; Difficulty Level; Literary Genres; Literature; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Zeit; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Literarische Form; Literatur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Time is an emerging concept during childhood. At first, children's concept of time is rather vague. Banks and Banks suggest that the goal for teaching time concepts and chronology in the elementary and middle school years should be to nurture students' ability to understand and interpret time concepts and comprehend how past and present events are interrelated. Banks and Banks explain that young children's difficulty with understanding time involves relationship concepts. Such concepts define a particular association between attributes or distinguishing characteristics. Young children lack sufficient experiences with the basic facts related to time, and with abstracting these facts to establish a relationship. Discussions of quality literature from different genres can serve a basis for connecting children to experiences in the past and support their developing sense of time and chronology. This article presents several suggestions for literature experiences that support children's emerging time and chronology understandings. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10