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This volume asks, what is it like to be a child in a country where 25% of the population is under the age of 14? Handling this question through a multidisciplinary lens, the book provides a rich and diverse analysis of different portrayals of childhood in Turkey. From childrens rights to transformation of childhood, from refugee children to host country children living in armed conflict areas, from cultural factors to gene-environment interaction, from parent-focused to child-focused programs, readers will find in-depth and up-to-date information about children living in Turkey from the perspectives of sociology, education, and psychology sciences.

1. The Rights of the Child in Turkey (Başak Başoğlu & Kadir Berk Kapancı) -- 2. From Research to Policy Implementation: An Overview of Child Well-Being Studies in Turkey (Pınar Uyan-Semerci & Emre Erdoğan) -- 3. Child Labor in Turkey: An Overview (Pınar Uyan Semerci & Emre Erdoğan) -- 4. The Construction of Childhood as a Political and Educational Category in Modern Turkey (Mehmet Toran & Ziya Toprak) -- 5. Transformation of Childhood in the Education System (Mine Göl-Güven) -- 6. Challenges of Syrian Refugee Children in the Turkish Education System: Pathways to Inclusive Education (Ulaş Sunata & Ayşe Beyazova) -- 7. A Social Justice-Oriented Analysis of Refugee Children's Educational Experiences in Turkey (Sultan Kilinc & Elif Karsli-Calamak) -- 8. Children and Politics in Turkey: Role-playing, Unchilding, Victimization (Nazan Maksudyan) -- 9. Mechanisms Linking Prenatal Environment and Child Development: The case of BABIP birth cohort from Turkey (Elif Aysimi Duman) -- 10. How Children in Turkey Use Digital Media: Factors Related to Children, Parents, and their Home Environment (Berna A. Uzundag , Cansu Oranç , Dilara Keşşafoğlu & Merve Nur Altundal) -- 11. Cultural Factors in the Development of Children's Socioemotional Competence (İbrahim H. Acar & Şevval Nur Yağlı) -- 12. Development of Social and Moral Judgments in the Turkish Context (Melike Acar) -- 13. Mental State Understanding in Turkey: Findings on the Development of the Theory of Mind from a Turkish Context (Müge Ekerim-Akbulut) -- 14. Children's Psychological Wellbeing under Armed Conflict: Findings from the East of Turkey (Buket Kara & Bilge Selcuk) -- 15. Experience of Early Childhood Care and Education in Turkey (A. Beyza Ateş & Hande Sodacı) -- 16. Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Development, Culture, and Education (Özgün Köksal) -- 17. Narrative Competence in relation to SES-second Language Interaction in Turkey (Aslı Aktan-Erciyes & Hale Ögel-Balaban) -- 18. Content, Functions, and Cultural Bases of Parent-Child Memory Conversations (Basak Sahin-Acar & Nur Elibol-Pekaslan) -- 19. ISTANBUL95: An Early Childhood Initiative to Improve Child Development (Feyza Çorapçı , Serra Müderrisoğlu , Hande Sart , & Nihal Yeniad) -- 20. Risk Factors for Child's Attachment Security and Positive Effects of Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P) Intervention on Mothers' Mental Health (Gizem Arikan & Asiye Kumru) -- 21. Bullying Prevention in Turkish Schools: Evaluation of the ViSC Program (Aysun Doğan , Sevgi T.Aytekin & Dagmar Strohmeier) -- 22. "I am Learning to Protect Myself with Mika": Child Sexual Abuse and Prevention Efforts in Turkey (Türkan Yılmaz Irmak & Rukiye Kızıltepe).

AbstractDespite being a ubiquitous form of communication, persuasive communication between children received relatively scant research attention. We used a novel approach to study children's persuasive interactions in a semi‐naturalistic paradigm where dyads of 4‐ to 6‐year‐old children were asked to follow a rule together. In this context, we observed (a) the frequency and types of strategies children spontaneously used to persuade their partners to abide by the rule, (b) compliance behavior following the persuasion attempt, and (c) strategy change following a failed attempt to persuade. We coded children's persuasive strategies as gentle control, negative control, and non‐engagement. Children tended to use gentle control and negative control strategies to a greater extent than non‐engagement strategies to prevent their partner's potential rule violation. However, after a violation occurred, children most frequently displayed non‐engagement. Gentle control brought about more compliance than the other strategies. Children tended to maintain their persuasive strategy of negative control and non‐engagement, even though these were mostly ineffective in achieving compliance. These results show that 4‐ to 6‐year‐old children spontaneously and flexibly utilized persuasive strategies with peers to abide by a rule.

AbstractAcross development, as children acquire a deeper understanding of their environment, they explore less and take advantage, or "exploit," what they already know. Here, we test whether children also enforce exploration‐oriented search behaviors onto others. Specifically, we ask whether children are more likely to encourage a search agent to explore versus exploit their environment, and whether this pattern varies across childhood (between 3 and 6 years). We also ask whether this pattern differs between children and adults, and generalizes across two different sociocultural contexts—Turkey and the United States—that differ on dimensions that might relate to children's decisions about exploration (e.g., curiosity‐focused educational practices, attitudes toward uncertainty avoidance). Participants (N = 358) watched an agent search for rewards and were asked at various points whether the agent should "stay" (exploit) in their current location, or "go" (explore) to a new location. At all points in the experiment, children enforced exploration significantly more often than adults. Early in the agent's search, children in the US enforced exploration more often than children in Turkey; later in the search, younger children (from both sociocultural contexts) were more likely to continue enforcing exploration compared to older children. These findings highlight that children are not only highly exploratory themselves, but also enforce exploration onto others—underscoring the central role that exploration plays in driving early cognitive development across diverse sociocultural contexts.Research Highlights
The current study examined developmental and cross‐cultural differences in children and adults' enforcement of explore‐exploit search strategies.
Children in the US and Turkey enforced exploration more than adults, who enforced exploitation more often; results were generally consistent across cultures with small differences.
Mirroring developmental changes in children's own search behavior; the tendency to enforce exploration decreased between 3‐ to 6‐years of age.
Findings underscore the central role of an "exploration mindset" in children's early decision‐making—even when exploration has no direct benefits to the child themselves.