As we will see, the cognitive skills are ones that early childhood teachers value, and that they can encourage deliberately. The other area of research discussed, literacy development, is especially important to educators working with older young children.his chapter is about how the cognitive development of young children can be affected by early childhood programs. It therefore does not describe everything that psychologists know or believe about cognitive development in young children.
However, Polynesians have a long storytelling tradition that includes tales of migratory travel between many of the main island groups--Samoa, Tahiti, etc. The Polynesian Triangle encompasses 16 million square miles of ocean, making Oceania the largest continent on earth. The first person of European descent to arrive in Hawaii was Captain James Cook, who came in 1778. Hawaiians had been living in the islands for more than 1500 years by the time he arrived.
The Hawaiian language takes its name from the largest island, Hawaii (HawaiÊ»i in the Hawaiian language), in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed, originally from a Polynesian language of the South Pacific, most likely Marquesan or Tahitian.merican missionaries bound for Hawai Ê» i used the phrases Owhihe Language and Owhyhee language in Boston prior to their departure in October 1819 and during their five-month voyage to Hawai'i. They still used such phrases as late as March 1822.