{"id":871,"date":"2024-02-10T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=871"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:56:27","slug":"6-research-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/chapter\/6-research-spotlight\/","title":{"raw":"Research Spotlight","rendered":"Research Spotlight"},"content":{"raw":"Researchers have been able to measure problem-solving by observing young children, helping us to understand important contexts of children\u2019s thinking and learning and how to support children\u2019s problem-solving.\r\n\r\nBecause problem-solving happens in play, work, and family interactions, there are many important sociocultural contexts that we can look at to learn more about children\u2019s problem-solving.\r\n\r\n<span>Let's begin by looking at collaborations between children and their mothers and teachers in Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Reading Exercise<\/h2>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n\r\nThis chapter\u2019s companion reading spotlights the following article:\r\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\"><span>Sun. J. &amp; Rao, N. (2011). Scaffolding preschool children\u2019s problem solving: A comparison <\/span><span>between Chinese mothers and teachers across multiple tasks.\u00a0<em>Journal of Early Childhood Research<\/em><\/span>\r\n<span><em>10<\/em>(3) 246\u2013266.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>Researchers have been able to measure problem-solving by observing young children, helping us to understand important contexts of children\u2019s thinking and learning and how to support children\u2019s problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p>Because problem-solving happens in play, work, and family interactions, there are many important sociocultural contexts that we can look at to learn more about children\u2019s problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p><span>Let&#8217;s begin by looking at collaborations between children and their mothers and teachers in Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Reading Exercise<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<p>This chapter\u2019s companion reading spotlights the following article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\"><span>Sun. J. &amp; Rao, N. (2011). Scaffolding preschool children\u2019s problem solving: A comparison <\/span><span>between Chinese mothers and teachers across multiple tasks.\u00a0<em>Journal of Early Childhood Research<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span><em>10<\/em>(3) 246\u2013266.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-871","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":811,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/871\/revisions\/1335"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/811"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/871\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/childthink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}