Early Childhood Education glossary

Hi, my name is Paula, I have been studying at Marie-Victorin College for 3 semesters and my field of study is Early Childhood Education. I choose to make this glossary to help people who want to study in this field and for parents who are curios. This glossary is going help you to understand the term that we use in the childhood education. I find the definition of the words of my glossary in the google dictionary, Cambridge dictionary and at science direct website. Thank you for watching!!

attachment

noun

A strong feeling of being emotionally close to someone or something.

Example: I've read every bonding and attachment book there is.

fr: attachement

centration

noun

Centration is the tendency to focus on only one aspect of a situation at one time. When a child can focus on more than one aspect of a situation at the same time they have the ability to decenter.

Example: Piaget's pre-operational and concrete operational stages, which encompass the development of children in primary school, propose that the child becomes better at centration as they progress from the former stage to the latter - they are able to focus on an aspect of the situation to the exclusion of all others (Slater, Hocking and Loose, 2003).

fr: centration

cognitive

noun

Connected with thinking or conscious mental processes.

Example: In addition, Bowlby reviewed data from academic studies describing infants' cognitive and social development including those of the famous and highly regarded child psychologist's Piaget.

fr: cognitif

control

noun

To order, limit, or rule something, or someone's actions or behaviour:.

Example: You must learn to control it. She can learn to control it.

fr: contrôler

coordination

noun

The ability to make your arms, legs, and other body parts move in a controlled way. The act of making all the people involved in a plan or activity work together in an organized way.

Example: There are things you should be doing working out, improving balance and coordination Yeah, that sounds like a blast.

fr: coorditation

creativity

noun

The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.

Example: Education and government applications have the highest impact on reducing the DD, due to their focus on innovation and creativity, enhancing the education process through ICTs use as well as improving the efficiency of public administration.

fr: créativité

development

noun

The process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.

Example: Perhaps the most well known application of ultrasound among the general public is in making sonograms, or ultrasonic pictures, of the fetus at early stages in its development to determine that growth is proceeding normally.

fr: développement

egocentrism

noun

Psychol a stage in a child's development characterized by lack of awareness that other people's points of view differ from his own.

Example: This basic defect, also found in his naturalistic study of spontaneous dialogue among kindergarten children, was called "egocentrism" by Piaget.

fr: égocentrisme

emotion

noun

A strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings in general:.

Example: If one wants to be powerful, it is useful to appear invulnerable; such things as crying, showing emotion and expressing intimacy connote weakness.

fr: émotion

environment

noun

The conditions that you live or work in and the way that they influence how you feel or how effectively you can work:.

Example: Finally, interviews were conducted in each setting to ascertain patient preferences and perceptions in the given treatment environment.

fr: environnement

infant

noun

A baby or a very young child.

Example: So why not say, then, that in development perception "teaches" action, that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively "richer" the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements, rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action?

fr: bébé

intervention

noun

The action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse:.

Example: Insofar as the results show significant relationships between relevant of cognitive, personality, and contextual factors, they provide a new, more accurate description of the problem, and may allow more effective forms of prediction, intervention and treatment.

fr: intervention

kindergarten

noun

A school or class that prepares children for first grade. A child in kindergarten is typically 5 or 6 years old..

Example: Whilst this study took place on pre-school children, a similar study by Wagner et al (1994) demonstrated similar findings in a three year longitudinal study on children from kindergarten through to 2nd grade.

fr: jardin d'enfants

language

noun

A system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar: She does research into how children acquire language.

Example: He's delivering an oration in sign language. - What's he saying? - He says...

fr: langue

learn

noun

Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

Example: This investigation adds to the growing body of knowledge in this area by demonstrating the positive effects an adventure training intervention has on athletes ability to learn new team and psychological skills.

fr: apprendre

myelination

noun

The acquisition, development, or formation of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber.

Example: Also her ability to coordinate demands from various parts of her brain whilst being selectively attentive requires myelination and increased production of neurotransmitters, which carry nervous impulses across synapses between neurones.

fr: Myélinisation

play

noun

When you play, especially as a child, you spend time doing an enjoyable and/or entertaining activity.

Example: In these cases what is sought are situations in which the world of the imagination and the activity of play get reinvigorated.

fr: Joué

preschool

noun

Of or relating to children who are between about three and five years old and have not yet gone to school, and their activities.

Example: And it is well known that children who have been read to in their preschool years have a general advantage when the learning of reading begins.

fr: préscolaire

psychomotor

noun

Relating to the origination of movement in conscious mental activity.

Example: Learning psychomotor skills A large percentage of nursing consists of actions which, when analysed, can be seen as skills.

fr: psychomoteur

skills

noun

An ability to do an activity well, especially because you have practised it.

Example: For many students Chemawa was an alternative to an orphanage, a respite from a dysfunctional family situation, an opportunity to gain an education and or vocational skills, or an opportunity to be with other Indians.

fr: compétences

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