澳门葡京博彩软件联系

心理学系

超过25年了, 澳门葡京博彩软件 professors Jill de Villiers and Peter de Villiers have conducted studies of language development and related cognitive achievements in preschool children, 经常向希尔堡的孩子们求助. They generally show children picture books they have made with specially designed questions, 或者和木偶玩游戏，看看他们是否能教木偶“正确说话”," or ask them to guess what someone will do next in a story we act out or show on video. Some of the work is "pure" science, but much of it has very real practical outcomes.

All studies must pass by the college's Institutional Review Board for the Use of Human Subjects, who make sure that the studies meet the requirements for the protection of the rights and confidentiality of the children.

语言与心智理论
希尔堡 was the site of a longitudinal study of 3 and 4 year olds that demonstrated that certain language gains were necessary before children could reason about another person's beliefs and knowledge. 这项工作扩展到几种语言, and confirmed with deaf children who often have delayed language development if they are learning oral language. The de Villiers are still pursuing how language assists thinking in this important domain, and have a new grant to study a very large group of low-income preschoolers in Texas and Florida over several years as part of a curriculum intervention project.  

They are also attempting to develop intervention materials that might help children with special difficulties, 比如自闭症.

非裔美国人英语
For many years the de Villiers have been involved in studying how African American children acquire the special properties of the dialect spoken by many African Americans. They had a contract from NIH to develop a suitable language assessment test that would not be biased against dialect speakers, 但是要挑出有语言障碍的孩子. 在开发这个测试的过程中, 他们在澳门葡京博彩软件日托中心的孩子们身上试用了许多项目, 虽然考试是标准化的，超过3,在全国范围内帮助了1万名儿童. 

语言习得
他们在澳门葡京博彩软件的所有时间, 德维利尔夫妇研究了学龄前儿童的语言习得, 重点是语义, 句法与语用学. 希尔堡 was the site of a longitudinal study of how children understand complex questions, 他们如何理解“每”这样的量词, 他们如何产生关系从句, 条...all of which have contributed enormously to their understanding of how English develops.

拣选机工程专业

近年来, 欧洲经委会是EGR100的社区合作伙伴, 面向所有人的工程, an introduction to engineering through participation in a semester-long team-based design project. 培养学生对工程设计过程的良好理解, 包括最初的问题识别, 头脑风暴, 背景研究, 设计准则的建立, 开发评估备选设计的度量和方法, 原型开发, 以及概念验证测试. Student teams worked with clients (teachers) and users (children) from the CECE to design experiential learning tools for preschool children.

项目的例子包括：

建筑大
Preschool children are fascinated by building large structures out of any available materials. The act of handling and constructing large objects contributes to their sense of power and autonomy, 使用这些结构鼓励创造性, 想象的游戏，同时教他们稳定的概念, 强度, 审美欣赏. The aim of this project was to design and fabricate a building “kit” to enable the children to safely construct large structures. The kit itself was required to be portable and could not require a tremendous amount of storage space.

黑暗中
学龄前儿童探索的常见媒介是光. The aim of this project was to construct a physical space that would serve as a large dark space or 'room' within a classroom in which children could explore the phenomena of shadow and light. The space needed to be portable and allow multiple children (and teachers) to use it at the same time.

户外工作室空间
An important space at the CECE is the art studio where children are able to explore multiple artistic media and modes of expression. 在温暖的月份, 人们常常希望在外面做一些这样的工作, 然而，目前还没有这样做的好空间. CECE目前正在重新设计一个新的操场, and there will be an area in the new playground space that would be suitable for setting up some form of outdoor art studio. 这个项目的目标是设计一系列的便携式, 模块化, multipurpose flat surfaces that can provide multiple levels of flat space for art exploration outdoors.

景观研究

在这项特别研究中, 学生来自四个学科（工作室艺术）, 教育与儿童学习, engineering and landscape studies) collaborated in the formal design process to benefit the new playgrounds at 希尔堡. 通过夏洛特和评论, small groups worked together to design a climbing structure for toddlers; a water feature for infants to preschoolers; and storyboards illustrating and describing the rich history of the site, 从印第安人的堡垒到蚕茧，再到莱曼家族的庄园.

学生们研究了这个地方丰富的历史, 有先例分析吗, 学习安全法规, 了解了小孩子的发展, 并开始理解这些设计的教学意义.

It was an opportunity for guest lectures given by the participating faculty and visiting professionals. 讲座内容包括游乐场设计的演变, 材料和结构分析（载荷）, 等.)的游乐场结构.