Exploring Patterns in Time Children Spend in a Variety of Child Care Activities: Associations with Environmental Quality, Ethnicity, and Gender.

Tonyan, Holli A.; Howes, Carollee

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ERIC Number: EJ670203

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Publication Date: 2003

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Exploring Patterns in Time Children Spend in a Variety of Child Care Activities: Associations with Environmental Quality, Ethnicity, and Gender.

Tonyan, Holli A.; Howes, Carollee

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, v18 n1 p121-42 2003

Explored whether children's experiences in child care programs related to individual (ethnicity, age, gender) and classroom (environmental quality) characteristics. Identified six patterns in how children spent their time: creative, language arts, didactic, gross motor, high-level adult involvement, and individualized adult interactions. Found that ethnicity, gender, and environmental quality related to children's activity patterns, but associations for children 10- to 36- months of age differed from those for older children. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Care, Classroom Environment, Cluster Analysis, Educational Environment, Ethnicity, Individual Activities, Sex Differences, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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