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Direct linkGilmore, Britney; Kramer, Michael W. – Communication Education, 2019
Symbolic convergence theory provides a framework to examine how group consciousness and meaning are formed. Because dialectical tensions are present in all human interactions (e.g., a need for flexibility and structure), group consciousness involves converging on meaning in the face of dialectical tensions. This research combined symbolic…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Identity, Teacher Role
Kim, Sunae; Harris, Paul L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Children are able to distinguish between regular events that can occur in everyday reality and magical events that are ordinarily impossible. How do children respond to a person who brings about magical as compared with ordinary outcomes? In two studies, we tested children's acceptance of informants' claims when the informants had produced either…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Fantasy, Trust (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
Kahl, Marilyn, Ed. – 1985
This publication on fantasy and folklore is a collection of puzzles, games, stories, exercises, activities, and other ideas for teachers. Materials and their authors include: (1) "Once upon a Plot" (Joyce Bennett); (2) "Kennings" (Marjorie Merwin); (3) "Putting a Hex On" (Marilyn Kahl); (4) "What's Your…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Fantasy, Folk Culture
Peer reviewedDowd, Francis A.; Taylor, Lisa C. – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1992
Discusses the results of a content analysis of fantasy books for children and young adults that was conducted to determine the similarities, if any, that exist among recent fantasy books. Characteristics examined include type of main character, type of conflict, setting, presence of magic or the supernatural, and point of view. (11 references)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Conflict, Content Analysis
Welsh, D. Kent – 1979
Since imagery is a unidimensional variable, all measures of imagery, both questionnaires and behavioral, should be correlated; this, however, has not been supported by earlier research. Therefore, a new questionnaire on mental imagery--the Differential Imagery Questionnaire (DIQ)--was developed which taps four types of imagery: word imagery (WI);…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Correlation, Creativity, Factor Structure
Download full textHughes, Renee M. – 1995
This practicum paper describes a fantasy play program designed for 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers with Barbie dolls that could be used as a tool in regularly scheduled center play activity. Because of strong biases held by teachers against commercial toys, children were not afforded the ability to experiment with these tools, or discover the role…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Fantasy, Preschool Children
McLoyd, Vonnie; And Others – 1980
A study, as yet unfinished, sought to replicate, expand, and provide preliminary answers to questions raised in previous research on the development of fantasy play by black children as functions of age, sex, income level, and other environmental factors. Fantasy play involves the attribution to persons, objects, materials, or situations of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Black Youth, Child Development
