Questions in a Life‐Sized Board Game: Comparing Caregivers' and Children's Question‐Asking across STEM Museum Exhibits

Gaudreau, Caroline; Bustamante, Andres S.; Hirsh‐Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick

doi:10.1111/mbe.12283

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“…We theorize that these same "built environments, " especially in disadvantaged communities, can foster early childhood curiosity by creating interactive opportunities to engage in conversational exchanges that are dotted with questions (Gaudreau et al, 2021). Our previous research found an association between more frequent parent conversation (during share television viewing) and higher kindergarten curiosity, with a greater magnitude of association in children from low-SES families (Shah et al, 2021).…”

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Ecological contexts associated with early childhood curiosity: Neighborhood safety, home and parenting quality, and socioeconomic status

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Hirsh‐Pasek²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionCuriosity is an important social-emotional process underlying early learning. Our previous work found a positive association between higher curiosity and higher academic achievement at kindergarten, with a greater magnitude of benefit for children with socioeconomic disadvantage. Because characteristics of the early caregiving and physical environment impact the processes that underlie early learning, we sought to examine early environmental experiences associated with early childhood curiosity, in hopes of identifying modifiable contexts that may promote its expression.MethodsUsing data from a nationally representative sample of 4,750 children from the United States, this study examined the association of multi-level ecological contexts (i.e., neighborhood safety, parenting quality, home environment, and center-based preschool enrollment) on early childhood curiosity at kindergarten, and tested for moderation by socioeconomic status.ResultsIn adjusted, stratified models, children from lower-resourced environments (characterized by the lowest-SES tertile) manifested higher curiosity if they experienced more positive parenting, higher quality home environments, and if they lived in “very safe” neighborhoods.DiscussionWe discuss the ecological contexts (i.e., parenting, home, and neighborhood environments) that are promotive of early childhood curiosity, with an emphasis on the role of the neighborhood safety and the “neighborhood built environment” as important modifiable contexts to foster early childhood curiosity in lower-resourced families.

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confidence: 98%

Ecological contexts associated with early childhood curiosity: Neighborhood safety, home and parenting quality, and socioeconomic status

Shah

Hirsh‐Pasek²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In fact, parent–child interactions during museum visits help transform children's curiosity into learning (Andre et al., 2017). While museum visits can stimulate and elicit child curiosity (Gaudreau et al., 2021; Gottfried et al., 2016), it is valuable to explore how to help visitors reap its full and wide‐ranging benefits.…”

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What American children's museum mission statements say about Lifelong Competencies

Kupiec

2024

Curator The Museum Journal

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Children's museums are a distinct type of museum—one particularly poised to engage and support the development of Lifelong Competencies that will help children live into their own successful and fulfilling futures. Understudied in the children's museum, which one(s) they prioritize is largely unknown, and, thus, so is their optimization. This work draws upon the important communication tool of institutional mission statements. Frequency analysis of the terms in 321 American children's museum mission statements (Study A) identified that children's museums prioritize the Lifelong Competencies of creativity and curiosity. Thematic analysis of the 119 mission statements that included these terms (Study B) indicated that children's museums' intended practice for achieving creativity and curiosity is through experiences, environments, and play with a focus on hands‐on and interactive elements, family‐friendly features, eliciting a positive affect, and experiences that are educational and innovative. Furthermore, creativity and curiosity are primarily valued as mediators toward learning.

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“…Indeed, in Philadelphia, members of the community became part of the scientific team to research the impact of the installations on caregiver-child behavior and child outcomes (Hassinger-Das et al, 2020. Evaluation of PLLs in previous work reveals that PLL outcomes are measurable and align with our goals of increasing adult-child interaction quality and language use, building positive attitudes and beliefs about playful learning, 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.933320 encouraging ownership of local spaces, and increasing civic engagement (Ridge et al, 2015;Hanner et al, 2019;Bustamante et al, 2020;Hassinger-Das et al, 2020;Gaudreau et al, 2021;Shivaram et al, 2021).…”

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Reinventing the public square and early educational settings through culturally informed, community co-design: Playful Learning Landscapes

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What if the environment could be transformed in culturally-responsive and inclusive ways to foster high-quality interactions and spark conversations that drive learning? In this article, we describe a new initiative accomplishing this, called Playful Learning Landscapes (PLL). PLL is an evidence-based initiative that blends findings from the science of learning with community-based participatory research to transform physical public spaces and educational settings into playful learning hubs. Here, we describe our model for conducting this research, which is mindful of three key components: community input, how children learn best, and what children need to learn to be successful in the 21st century economy. We describe how this model was implemented in two PLL case studies: one in a predominantly Latine community and the second in early childhood education classrooms. Furthermore, we describe how research employing our model can be rigorously and reliably evaluated using observational and methodological tools that respond to diverse cultural settings and learning outcomes. For example, our work evaluates how PLL impacts adult–child interaction quality and language use, attitudes about play and learning, and community civic engagement. Taken together, this article highlights new ways to involve community voices in developmental and educational research and provides a model of how science can be translated into practice and evaluated in culturally responsive ways. This synthesis of our process and evaluation can be used by researchers, policymakers, and educators to reimagine early educational experiences with an eye toward the built environment that children inhabit in everyday life, creating opportunities that foster lifelong learning.

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Questions in a Life‐Sized Board Game: Comparing Caregivers' and Children's Question‐Asking across STEM Museum Exhibits

Cited by 13 publications

References 42 publications

Ecological contexts associated with early childhood curiosity: Neighborhood safety, home and parenting quality, and socioeconomic status

Ecological contexts associated with early childhood curiosity: Neighborhood safety, home and parenting quality, and socioeconomic status

What American children's museum mission statements say about Lifelong Competencies

Reinventing the public square and early educational settings through culturally informed, community co-design: Playful Learning Landscapes

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