The early development and challenges of tool innovation in preschool children

• Verfasst von: Breyel, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The early development and challenges of tool innovation in preschool children
• Mitwirkende: Pauen, Sabina [AkademischeR BetreuerIn]
• Verf.angabe: presented by Sabine Breyel ; advisor: Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen
• Verlagsort: Heidelberg
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: 08 Aug. 2022
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (147 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme
• Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 2022
• DOI: doi:10.11588/heidok.00032018
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-320188
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Breyel, Sabine, 1992 - : The early development and challenges of tool innovation in preschool children. - Heidelberg, 2022. - 1 Band (verschiedene Seitenzählungen)
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Abstract

The ability to individually solve a novel problem by modifying objects into a new tool is termed tool innovation. This thesis aims to provide new insights into the challenges children face during tool innovation tasks by taking three different approaches. First, I describe the early development of innovation skills in the preschool age in more detail by examining three- to five-year-olds’ skills in solving two versions of a tool-making task and suggest more differentiated ways to analyze children’s solution approaches. Second, I analyze children’s private speech while solving these problems to examine which processes on the cognitive, emotional, or motivational level might affect innovation performance. Third, in a training study, I examine whether young children benefit from prior experiences in tool making through analogical transfer.