A Natural History of Repetition

Autor/inn/en	Jones, Anne E.; Henzi, S. P.; Barrett, Louise
Titel	A Natural History of Repetition
Quelle	In: Journal of Montessori Research, 5 (2019) 2, S.15-44 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2378-3923
Schlagwörter	Student Behavior; Repetition; Play; Child Care; Child Care Centers; Child Behavior; Physical Activities; Child Development; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Age Differences; Psychomotor Skills; Skill Development; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Wiederholung; Spiel; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kindesentwicklung; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Kanada
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to understand typically developing children's repetitive behavior in a freeplay, daycare setting. By studying repetition in a non-Montessori setting, we tested the assumption that repetition is a characteristic behavior of all young children and not limited to the Montessori environment. Although Maria Montessori identified repetition during her observations, there is little empirical evidence to support her claim: most research has considered repetition in terms of psychopathology. We collected naturalistic observational data on 31 3- to 6-year-old children for a total of 101 hours to investigate the frequency, contexts, and structure of repetitive bouts. Multilevel model results suggest the ubiquity of repetition, as all children in the study engaged in motor repetition. Furthermore, repetition occurred throughout all free-play activities (construction, animation, fantasy play, rough-and-tumble play, and undirected activity), although repetition was not equally distributed across activities. Motor repetition was not equal across ages either; younger children engaged in more motor repetition than did older children. To understand the structure of repetition, our study also looked at the length of repetition bouts, which ranged from 2 to 19 repetitions and averaged 2.86 repetitions per bout. This natural history of repetition is an influential starting point for understanding the role of repetition in development and is informative to both Montessori and non-Montessori early childhood educators. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01