Transformation Of Children Research Articles

The transformation of children’s mental representations of 5-6 year olds for coagulation: precursor models through a storytelling approach

Abstract The current study presents the results of a qualitative research on the mental representations of children aged 5-6 years regarding the coagulation of everyday materials. Initially, children’s representations on coagulation of butter and chocolate were studied in a pre-test through three different tasks. Subsequently, a teaching intervention was implemented based on a storytelling approach, which is embedded in a socio-constructivist perspective with the aim of establishing a precursor model in children’s thinking about coagulation. Finally, in a post-test, children’s representations after the teaching intervention were studied. The results of the research showed that children have made significant progress in the post-test as the majority of them recognize cooling as a factor in the coagulation of the above materials.

Shanghai Tou-se-we Orphanage and the Transformation of Children's Relief in Modern China

In order to explore the development and transformation of the orphan relief cause in modern China, this paper takes Tou-se-we Orphanage as the research object, and uses the methods of literature research and historical comparison to cross-disciplinary analysis of the children's cause model of Tou-se-we Orphanage and its impact on the transformation of the children's relief cause in modern China. First, the founding and development of Tou-se-we Orphanage was closely related to the background of modern China and the social characteristics of Shanghai. Second, Tou-se-we Orphanage created a relief model that attached equal importance to upbringing and education, which not only saved the orphans' lives, but also provided them with a skill to survive. Third, Tou-se-we Orphanage opened up a relief road different from the ancient Chinese orphanages. Under its influence, China's orphan relief had also begun to place equal emphasis on nurturing and nurturing orphans to be able to support themselves when they grow up. Therefore, Tou-se-we Orphanage became a typical representative of the orphan relief cause in modern Shanghai, which influenced the transformation and development of the orphan relief cause in China, and also provided a positive reference for today's children's relief cause.

The Long Reach of Creativity: The Lasting Impact of 1970s Italian Children’s Literature

Abstract: Between 1968 and 1980, Italy witnessed a dynamic transformation in children’s literature marked by innovative visual, aesthetic, and educational paradigms, involving a profound assimilation of social, cultural, and political dimensions into children’s literature. Children’s books became hubs of interdisciplinary experimentation in which young readers were to be critical cultural participants. These changes took the forms of playful storytelling, intertextuality, nonlinear narratives, and groundbreaking visual, graphic, and material elements. Pioneering technologies further enriched the sensory experience suffusing these books. This article examines the enduring impact of these transformations on Italian children’s literature, focusing particularly on early literacy. It explores four distinct categories of change: the emergence of radical series, innovative adaptations of folk tales, multisensory training grounds, and a trend toward visual narrative cards. These innovations revolutionized prereading education, emphasizing children’s agency and sensory engagement. In studying these shifts, this research underscores the legacy of early experiments in Italian children’s literature, initiatives that continue to shape contemporary children’s literature and education globally, exemplifying the profound impact of a revolutionary period in children’s publishing.

Analysis of the Status and Future Direction for Digital Therapeutics in Children and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Digital therapeutics based on software, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, games, and smartphone applications, are in the spotlight as new therapeutic alternatives in child and adolescent psychiatry. It draws attention to overcoming conventional therapeutics' limitations, such as toxicity, cost, and accessibility, and encourages patients to participate in the treatment attractively. The growth potential of the digital therapeutics market for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in Korea and abroad has been highlighted. Clinical studies and Food and Drug Administration approvals for digital therapeutics have increased, and cases approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety have emerged in Korea. As seen above, digital transformation in child and adolescent psychiatry will change treatment paradigms significantly. Therefore, as this new field has just begun to emerge, it is necessary to verify the effectiveness and scope of the application of digital therapeutics and consider preparing a compensation system and institutional arrangements. Accordingly, this study analyzed the development trends and application status of digital therapeutics in children and adolescents and presented limitations and development directions from the perspective of application in healthcare. Further, the study is expected to identify the utility and limitations of digital therapeutics for children and adolescents and establish effective application measures.

Looking fear in the eye: Gamified virtual reality exposure towards spiders for children using attention based feedback.

Many children around the globe suffer from spider phobia. Virtual reality exposure therapy is an effective phobia treatment, but so far predominantly tailored for adults. A gamified approach utilizing gaze interaction would allow for a more child-friendly and engaging experience, and provide the possibility to foster working mechanisms of exposure therapy. We developed an application in which children make spiders change in positively connoted ways (e.g., make them dance or shrink) if sufficient visual attention towards them is captured via eye tracking. Thereby, motivation for and positive affects during exposure towards spiders are aspired. In this pilot study on 21 children without (n = 11) and with fear of spiders (n = 10), we examined positive and negative affect during exposure to a virtual spider and to different gaze-related transformations of the spider within a quasi-experimental design. Within a one-group design, we additionally examined fear of spiders in spider fearful children before and one week after the intervention. We found that significantly more positive than negative affect was induced by the spiders' transformations in children without and with fear of spiders. Fear of spiders was furthermore significantly reduced in spider-fearful children, showing large effect sizes (d > .80). Findings indicate eligibility for future clinical use and evaluation in children with spider phobia.

Transformation of Children’s Paintings into Public Art to Improve Public Spaces and Enhance People’s Happiness

Characteristics of children's paintings have been suggested considered for application in public art since they are known to positively evoke a sense of well-being when people see them. This study aims to understand the impact of artistic features from children's drawings on people's well-being; then analyzing the adaptive design principles of 3D public art featuring children's paintings on people's happiness; and finally, exploring the influence of 3D public art featuring children's paintings on improving public spaces and enhancing people's well-being. The results lead to proposing a conceptual framework for public artworks in public spaces for improving people's happiness. The proposed conceptual framework recommends that, by applying the visual and thinking features of children's paintings to public art, artists can design high-quality artworks suitable for a city, which could improve people's happiness in public spaces. This study recommends further research into how public art can promote public spaces and shape the urban culture. It contributes to enhancing the quality of public art and public spaces, and inspiring a sense of well-being among citizens through the use of appropriate public art. The results are significant because they will help artists to create more high-quality public artworks for urban public spaces in order to evoke people's happiness.

Before the pandemic and its impact to the future" about IoT and the transformation of children's social education

This research invites us to analyze how IoT through social media is transformed as an educational medium for social interaction for children during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study also identifies how parents, teachers, and children perceive social interactions before and after the pandemic. This research method uses embedded mixed methods by utilizing a qualitative approach through virtual ethnography and borrowing a questionnaire to complement the qualitative data. The survey of responses in this study was obtained from 100 parents and children who carried out learning activities at home from April 2020 to April 2021. The results show that the transformation of IoT and social media has had a significant impact on children's education in social interaction, owing to their interactive nature. Thus, IoT and social media can evolve into additional artefacts that act as mediators in the post-millennial generation, rather than as a form of culture. When social media and online games are introduced into a child's environment, it has been demonstrated that they mediate their conceptualization of learning and cognitive development, among other agents through the interactions between teachers, children, and technology, children conceptualize higher mental functions such as continuous and ongoing problem-solving dispositions, as well as language acquisition and social learning. The effect of technology on human interaction results in the transformation of social functions into individual mental functions, a process facilitated by modern technology.

On the Transformation of Children’s Awareness in CLIL Lesson for SDGs:

On the Transformation of Children’s Awareness in CLIL Lesson for SDGs:

A study on the transformation of children’s perception of “connection with the community” through media production - A case study with elementary school students in Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture -

A study on the transformation of children’s perception of “connection with the community” through media production - A case study with elementary school students in Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture -

Body Language in Children's Literature: Cartoon Art and Its Dramatic Referral

This study deals with the impact of artistic transformation in children's literature on the activation of the child's dramatic sense in his relationship with the text via cartoon art as a sensory translation of body language. The study will present three Palestinian literary model writers from three generations: Tawfiq Fayyad, in his story Haifa was al-Nawras; Yahya Yakhluf, in his story Saq al-Qasab, and Najwa Zoreq, in her story Imlaq Amir Al-Saghir. The three models adopt an artistic method that is specific to the publishing house that published their stories. The research methodology tries to answer the following questions by creating a confrontation between two cartoon models versus a model with the technology of realistic expressionism: 1.Is the artistic transformation of children's stories a preplanned plan by the Arab publishing houses that is accomplished by a professional artist? 2.How does the stylistic technique of caricature art raise the children's mental interaction? The study aims to achieve two goals: first, to determine the artistic stylistic technique of the child's language and the cartoon art as a transformation reference, and second: to motivate the publishing houses to give more weight in their publications to the child's pleasure over their profitable interests

От детской одаренности к реальному таланту: проблема «перехода»

The main problem of gifted children is the "transition" of their increased intellectual capabilities into talent, as the basis of creative activity, or, in another formulation, the transformation of children's giftedness into an actual talent. Analysis of available materials shows that the cognitive need of a significant part of these children takes the character of passive accumulation of a large amount of knowledge and therefore becomes an obstacle to such a transition. The search need is considered to be a basic factor, which is the "engine" of the creative realization of a gifted person, which ensures the search for new solutions and ways of action in contradictory and uncertain situations for the subject, and, thus, becomes the basis of his talent, future creative achievements. It is shown that in a number of gifted children and, above all, in the so-called "prodigies" the need for search is early and very significantly deformed, which in most cases is directly related to social influences. The article deals with the causes and consequences of a significant deformation of the search need in gifted children.

Incorporation of somatic panels for the detection of haematopoietic transformation in children and young adults with leukaemia predisposition syndromes and with acquired cytopenias.

Detection of somatic mutations may help verify the diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in patients with persistent cytopenias or with MDS-predisposition syndromes, prior to the development of overt leukemia. However, the spectrum and consequences of acquired changes in paediatric patients have not been fully evaluated, and especially not in the context of an underlying syndrome. We incorporated a targeted next-generation-sequencing panel of 54 genes for the detection of somatic mutations in paediatric and young adult patients with inherited or acquired cytopenias. Sixty-five patients were included in this study, of whom 17 (26%) had somatic mutations. We detected somatic mutations in 20% of individuals with inherited MDS-predisposition syndromes, including in patients with severe congenital neutropenia and Fanconi anaemia, and with germline mutations in SAMD9L. Thirty-eight per cent of children with acquired cytopenias and suspected MDS had somatic changes, most commonly in genes related to signal transduction and transcription. Molecularly abnormal clones often preceded cytogenetic changes. Thus, routine performance of somatic panels can establish the diagnosis of MDS and determine the optimal timing of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, prior to the development of leukaemia. In addition, performing somatic panels in patients with inherited MDS-predisposition syndromes may reveal their unique spectrum of acquired mutations.

Evaluating the CYP-IAPT transformation of child and adolescent mental health services in Cambridgeshire, UK: a qualitative implementation study

BackgroundThe Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) programme was introduced to transform Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across England. The programme comprised a set of principles that local CAMHS partnerships were expected to operationalise and embed with the aim of increasing access to services and improving the quality of care. This study explored how the implementation of the CYP-IAPT programme was executed and experienced by CAMHS professionals in the county of Cambridgeshire (UK), and the extent to which the CYP-IAPT principles were perceived to be successfully embedded into everyday practice.MethodsWe analysed 275 documents relating to the CYP-IAPT programme issued between 2011 and 2015. We also conducted a thematic analysis of 20 qualitative interviews, undertaken at two time points, with professionals from three CAMHS teams in Cambridgeshire. Analysis was informed by implementation science frameworks.ResultsDocument analysis suggested that the CYP-IAPT programme was initially not clearly defined and lacked guidance on how to operationalise key programme principles and apply them in everyday practice. There was also a degree of programme evolution over time, which made it difficult for local stakeholders to understand the scope and aims of CYP-IAPT. Interviews with staff showed low coherent understanding of the programme, variable levels of investment among stakeholders and difficulties in collaborative working. Barriers and facilitators to programme implementation were identified at individual, service and strategic levels. These in turn impacted the local implementation efforts and sustainability of the programme in Cambridgeshire.ConclusionsWe identified factors relating to programme design and national and local implementation planning, as well as features of inner and outer context, which impacted on the delivery and sustainability of the programme. These findings can be drawn upon to inform the development and delivery of other local and national quality improvement (QI) initiatives relating to children and young people’s mental health.

Early prediction of encephalopathic transformation in children with benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes

BackgroundMost children with Benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS) undergo remission during late adolescence and do not require treatment. In a small group of patients, the condition may evolve to encephalopathic syndromes including epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep (ECSWS), or Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (LKS). Development of prediction models for early identification of at-risk children is of utmost importance. AimTo develop a predictive model of encephalopathic transformation using data-driven approaches, reveal complex interactions to identify potential risk factors. MethodsData were collected from a cohort of 91 patients diagnosed with BECTS treated between the years 2005–2017 at a pediatric neurology institute. Data on the initial presentation was collected based on a novel BECTS ontology and used to discover potential risk factors and to build a predictive model. Statistical and machine learning methods were compared. ResultsA subgroup of 18 children had encephalopathic transformation. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression Model with Elastic Net was able to successfully detect children with ECSWS or LKS. Sensitivity and specificity were 0.83 and 0.44. The most notable risk factors were fronto-temporal and temporo-parietal localization of epileptic foci, semiology of seizure involving dysarthria or somatosensory auras. ConclusionNovel prediction model for early identification of patients with BECTS at risk for ECSWS or LKS. This model can be used as a screening tool and assist physicians to consider special management for children predicted at high-risk. Clinical application of machine learning methods opens new frontiers of personalized patient care and treatment.

Tecnologias digitais na Educação Infantil: representações sociais de professoras

This article presents the results of a research that aimed to identify the social representations of teachers about digital information and communication technologies (TDIC) in the pedagogical practice in early childhood education. The research had a o this end, it was developed in a qualitative and quantitative approach with teachers of public schools in the state of Minas Gerais and the data were analyzed from the perspective of the theory of social representations. It was found that teachers recognize the influence of ICDT in the transformation of children's daily lives. They perceive technologies as capable of arousing the interest of children and transforming their way of thinking, acting and interpreting the world, which is eventually reflected in the context of early childhood education. Although everyday users of ICDT in their personal lives, teachers recognize difficulties in incorporating them into their pedagogical practices in early childhood education, mainly because they do not feel prepared for it.

Policy Recommendations to Promote Integrated Mental Health Care for Children and Youth.

Policy Recommendations to Promote Integrated Mental Health Care for Children and Youth.

Non-Invasive Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Children with Chronic Hepatic Disorders

Background: The applicability of non-invasive markers for predicting hepatic fibrosis in the pediatric population with chronic liver abnormalities is unclear. Objectives: We investigated the applicability of common non-invasive liver fibrosis parameters for detecting liver fibrosis in children with chronic hepatitis. Methods: This was a double-center study in Amir-Almomenin Hospital of Zabol and Namazi Hospital of Shiraz (2015 - 2017). Liver fibrosis was confirmed by biopsy examination. AST to platelet ratio (APRI), AST to ALT ratio (AAR), and Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) were evaluated. Results: Out of 47 patients, 23 (48.9%) were females, and 24 (51.1%) were males. The mean age was 9.8 ± 11.3 months. APRI and FIB-4 correlated with fibrosis stages (r = 0.1 and r = 0.2, respectively). APRI showed an AUC of 0.541 for detecting non-advanced fibrosis (stages 0, 1, and 2). AAR and FIB-4 represented AUCs of 0.622 and 0.592 for advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis, respectively. The highest sensitivity of APRI (70%) was obtained at the cut-off point of 0.81 for cirrhosis. The highest specificities for APRI were observed at 0.66 (68%) and 1.37 (68%) for fibrotic stages 0 and 2, respectively. At the thresholds of 0.71 and 0.59, AAR rendered 78% sensitivity and 90% specificity for advanced fibrosis (stages 3 and 4) and no fibrosis (stage = 0), respectively. FIB-4 showed the highest sensitivity and specificity (70% and 60%) at the cut-off point of 0.21 for detecting cirrhosis. Conclusions: APRI, FIB-4, and AAR can be regarded as useful markers in predicting fibrotic transformation in children with various etiologies of chronic hepatitis.

Assessment of Cultural Practices That Hinder Transition of Learners with Special Needs in Education from Home to Pre-Primary Schools in Narok County, Kenya

The study intends to look at the cultural practices that hinder the transition of learners with special needs in education from home to pre-primary schools in Narok County, Kenya. The main objective of this study is to examine the cultural practices that hinder smooth transition of learners into pre-primary schools from their homes. The study will be supported by the Transition theory which posits that early childhood development is a natural and a universal process of progress transformation or stage transformation in children’s moral, socio-emotional, mental/ cognitive and physical competencies and supports Piaget’s theory that learners learn through interactions with their surrounding culture. The target population of the study will comprise of 53 schools, 53 head teachers, 53 teachers and 650 pupils and 2 Educational Assessment and Resource Center officers in Narok County. Simple random sampling will be used to select the schools, while the head teachers, teachers and pupils will be selected using purposive sampling as well as the EARC officers. The sample size will comprise of 15 schools, 15 head teachers, 15 teachers and 243 pupils. The study will use a descriptive survey design combining both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. The instruments will include questionnaires, structured interview schedules and observation checklists. The instruments will be pre-tested for validity and reliability in Bomet County Split-half technique will be used to assess the instruments’ reliability while validity will be determined after it has been read through with the representative respondents. Purposive sampling will be used to select the pre-primary schools, learners, pre-primary teachers and the head teachers. Convenience sampling will be used to select the parents. The target population will be respondents from centers selected for the study. Data will be coded and analyzed by use of measures of central tendency encompassing mean, mode and percentages. The data will be analyzed and presented in tabular and graphical form. The study may be of significance to the EARC officers, head teachers, pre-primary teachers, parents and the policy makers at the ministry of Education, science and technology. Keywords: Cultural practices, Transition, Pre-primary, Special needs, Early childhood education, EARC Officers DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-21-03 Publication date: July 31 st 2020

Towards Transformational Research for and with Indigenous Communities: The New British Columbia Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network

This article documents the development of the newly launched Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network in British Columbia. This Network is a provincial association of researchers, service providers, community members and policy makers with an interest in using Indigenous research in the transformation of child and family services. Rooted in a vision for healing and the inclusion of diverse voices, Network Initiatives seek to reclaim Indigenous ways of knowing and doing and reposition them at the core of child and family wellness initiatives. The Network provides a space for critical dialogue about Indigenous research, as well as opportunities for researched-related training, knowledge transmission and resource sharing.

Socjologia dzieciństwa: dyskusja nad pozycją dziecka w socjologii

This article addresses the issue of constructing childhood sociologically. Classical sociology focused on the transformation of children into reliable adult social actors, namely on the process of socialization. In contrast, the sociology of childhood, as a relatively young branch of the discipline, is sensitive to the place of children in society. Therefore, the sociology of childhood explores the very idea of the child rather than treats the child as a being with a relatively determined trajectory. The article presents sociology’s conceptual base and its different approaches to the child. In particular, the central concepts of the childhood sociology are outlined and critically discussed.