Research Findings: Although it is well documented that toy play and book sharing shape communication between adults and children in different ways, relatively few studies have compared teacher-child interactions in the two activities. The aim of this observational study was to describe and compare the conversational functions of teachers' and…

Research Findings: Although work across developmental and educational psychology reveals that trust impacts children's acceptance of claims and that teacher-student relationships impact learning outcomes, little work has integrated these literatures to better understand how students' trust in their teacher facilitates learning. In the present…

Compared the nature of conflict and its resolution during free-play among preschool children with and without disabilities. Results indicated conflict occurred relatively infrequently and was of short duration. Disabled children tended to have more object possession disputes than other disputes; nondisabled children had more disputes during…