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Salomo, Dorothe; Liszkowski, Ulf – Child Development, 2013
Daily activities of forty-eight 8- to 15-month-olds and their interlocutors were observed to test for the presence and frequency of triadic joint actions and deictic gestures across three different cultures: Yucatec-Mayans (Mexico), Dutch (Netherlands), and Shanghai-Chinese (China). The amount of joint action and deictic gestures to which infants…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Cultural Differences
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Porras-Hernandez, Laura Helena; Salinas-Amescua, Bertha – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
In this article, the authors propose that dispositional factors do not sufficiently explain nonparticipation in adult education programs. Many nations report low participation rates, but empirical studies have usually been conducted with enrolled adults. This study, however, included 279 poorly educated mestizas and Native women in two regions of…
Descriptors: Females, Self Efficacy, Adult Basic Education, Self Concept