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Crockenberg, Susan B.; And Others – 1974
This study examined the effects of cooperative and competitive goal structures on children's evaluations of the learning experience and on children's self-reward. Fourth-graders (n=180) were assigned to learning groups of three children each by a stratified (sex and ability) random sampling procedure. Groups were assigned to either the group…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Elementary Education, Failure
Rogoff, Barbara; And Others – 1983
It is argued in this paper that, while newborn infants are ignorant of the the life-ways of the society into which they are born, by age 3 children have become socialized participants of their culture. It is the thesis of the discussion that the rapid development of babies into participants of society is accomplished through a finely tuned…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Matabane, Paula W.; Gandy, Oscar H., Jr. – 1987
A study investigated the viewing behavior of a sample of public television supporters, specifically examining the relationship of their social characteristics to viewing and to knowledge about Africa as presented in the series "The Africans." Subjects, 120 District of Columbia adults drawn from the membership lists of a local public TV…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Documentaries
Van Manen, Max – 1978
The paper provides a sketch of the development of phenomenological pedagogy as it has been represented in the Netherlands in the work of educators and psychologists at the Utrecht School. Phenomenology is the theory that behavior is determined by the interaction of personal experience with external reality. Proponents of the Utrecht School have…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Behavior Patterns, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Evaluation