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Peer reviewedEmler, Nicholas – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Interviews with 7- to 11-year-old Scottish and French children indicated that formal education provided the context for the development of children's beliefs about, and representations of, institutional authority. The emergence of these representations was influenced by the children's social class and culture. (BC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedNipkow, Karl Ernst; Schweitzer, Friedrich – New Directions for Child Development, 1991
Presents results of an analysis of a collection of statements about God written by German students between 16 and 22 years of age. Examines results from a psychoanalytic and cognitive-developmental perspective. Also considers the ways in which adolescents talk about the relationship between God and the church. (BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Beliefs, Children
Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D. – New Directions for Child Development, 1993
Examines the relationship between play and environmental and biological factors and individual differences. Explores correlates of morbidity, nutrition, and caregiving environments on toddlers' play sophistication in Egypt. Suggests that variability in children's object versus social play may be a function of the goodness of fit between child and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
