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Academic Identity Formation and Motivation among Ethnic Minority Adolescents: The Role of the "Self" between Internal and External Perceptions of Identity

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Matthews, Jamaal S.; Banerjee, Meeta; Lauermann, Fani – Child Development, 2014

Identity is often studied as a motivational construct within research on adolescent development and education. However, differential dimensions of identity, as a set of internal values versus external perceptions of social belonging, may relate to motivation in distinct ways. Utilizing a sample of 600 African American and Latino adolescents (43%…

Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Identification (Psychology), Social Influences

Seeing Is Believing: Children's Explanations of Commonplace, Magical, and Extraordinary Transformations.

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Rosengren, Karl S.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994

Children's magical explanations and beliefs were investigated in two studies. Found that many four-year olds view magic as a plausible mechanism, yet reserve magical explanations for certain real world events that violate their causal expectations. Parents and culture at large may at first actively support magical beliefs whereas peers and schools…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Child Development