Gesturers tell a story creatively; non-gesturers tell it like it happened

A Laurent, L Smithson, E Nicoladis - Language Learning and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… We also test whether children who gesture demonstrate more creativity in their narrative …
The authors suggested that gesture production could enable creative thinking among children. …

Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance

I Vilà‐Giménez, P Prieto - Developmental Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… producing iconic gestures facilitated participant's memory recall. A study by Cook, Yip, and
Goldin-Meadow (2010) reported positive effects of producing iconic gestures (vs. no gesture) …

A framework for identifying and developing children's creative thinking while coding with digital technologies

…, M Joubert, E Cross, S Wilson - Issues in Educational …, 2020 - search.informit.org
… or gestures, but what differentiates it from creative doing or … environment that supports
childrens creative thinking. These … the environment to facilitate childrens creativity. Intentional …

[HTML][HTML] Embodied displays of “doing thinking.” Epistemic and interactive functions of thinking displays in children's argumentative activities

V Heller - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… This paper addresses these issues and examines thinking faces in children's argumentative
… Since the analytical focus is not on gesture, I do not transcribe different gesture phases to …

[HTML][HTML] Can gestures give us access to thought? A systematic literature review on the role of co-thought and co-speech gestures in children with intellectual …

N Lacombe, T Dias, G Petitpierre - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2022 - Springer
… This systematic review analyzes the differential use of gestures in learning by children with
… 1) Children with ID accompany their spoken language with more gestures than TD children; …

[HTML][HTML] Teaching analogical reasoning with co-speech gesture shows children where to look, but only boosts learning for some

KF Guarino, EM Wakefield - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
gesture can support childrens understanding of spoken instruction and whether the benefit
of teaching though speech and gesture … explore the impact of gesture in analogical reasoning…

[HTML][HTML] Gestures in the teaching and learning process: a systematic literature review

SDOSA FREITAS, ASDE ANDRADE NETO - Educação em Revista, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
… , we use gestures to express ourselves when we detail our thinking or try to explain a concept,
especially a scientific model, to a teacher or classmate. Those gestures are essential, as it …

Multimodal creative inquiry: Theorising a new approach for children's Science meaning-making in Early Childhood Education

S Kewalramani, N Veresov - Research in Science Education, 2022 - Springer
… , becomes a child-centred method if creative thinking emerges from the childs play as an …
, the muscles to make facial expressions and gestures) or technological ones like pen and ink, …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating embodied cognition and information processing: A combined model of the role of gesture in children's mathematical environments

R Gordon, GB Ramani - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
children's EF and math abilities (see Clements et al., 2016 for a review), as well as gestures
… In this review, we discuss how children's use of and exposure to hand gestures during math …

Creative collaboration in young children's playful group drawing

T Kukkonen, S Chang‐Kredl… - The Journal of creative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
creativity, suggesting that children develop imagination (a key component of creative thinking
30) and that drawing, in addition to gestures, offers young children a way to visually convey …