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- Title: Chapter 3: the Case for Social Skills Training in the Primary School Curriculum: A Follow up Study of Attention and Theory of Mind Skills in First Grade Boys (Part I) (Report)
- Author : Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 90 KB
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Starting school is a major milestone for most children. Although many children may have early and varied experiences outside the home environment or may have attended various types of preschool, including day care, the beginning of kindergarten marks the entrance into "real" school, and a world of new challenges. According to Entwisle and Alexander (1998), "How well students do in the primary grades matters more for their future success than does their school performance at any other time" (p. 354). As the young primary school student spends the majority of the weekday in this new--and perhaps largely unfamiliar--surrounding, (s)he encounters numerous social challenges. There are routines to be learned, relationships to establish with new adults and classmates, new environments to explore, and ever increasing demands of social expectations. According to developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, children entering primary school are functioning at the preoperational level. Children in this stage exhibit egocentric tendencies; hence, they see the world from their own viewpoint. Young children may believe that others share their wants, needs, beliefs, feelings and desires. According to Piaget's (1929) theory, it is through interaction with the environment that children move from this egocentric view to an understanding that others are also thinking, feeling beings with needs, wants, and perspectives that may be quite different from their own. This ability to understand the mental states of others and predict behaviors based on that understanding is what Premack and Woodruff (1978) refer to as having a theory of mind (ToM).
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