{"pk":25748,"title":"Toddlers Learn with Facilitated Play, Not Free Play","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Can children of all age groups engage in self-directed\nlearning? While active learning has been widely advocated in\neducation, it remains unclear whether its benefits apply to\nchildren at all developmental levels. In the present study, we\ndemonstrate that 19-month-old toddlers acquire higher-order\ngeneralizations in the causal domain only when their play is\nfacilitated by an adult experimenter or a parent, and not when\nthey are provided with full instruction or complete free play.\nThese findings stand in contrast with earlier findings that 36-\nmonth-old children can learn effectively from data they\ngenerate by themselves under conditions of complete free\nplay. This difference suggests that the ability to engage in\nself-directed learning may develop over early childhood.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"free play; facilitated play; self-directed learning"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93v5g359","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Zi","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Sim","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Fei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25748/galley/15372/download/"}]}