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Pisha, Lorelei Emma – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to investigate how early childhood teachers working in Head Start programs made meaning of preschool-age children's physical activity play by exploring their personal childhood and professional experiences with physical activity play. The study was conducted to contribute research-based recommendations for…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Early Intervention, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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Guyer, Amanda E.; McClure-Tone, Erin B.; Shiffrin, Nina D.; Pine, Daniel S.; Nelson, Eric E. – Child Development, 2009
Neural correlates of social-cognition were assessed in 9- to- 17-year-olds (N = 34) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants appraised how unfamiliar peers they had previously identified as being of high or low interest would evaluate them for an anticipated online chat session. Differential age- and sex-related activation…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Peer Evaluation, Adolescents, Social Development
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Johnson, Wendy; McGue, Matt; Iacono, William G. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
Using the biological and adoptive families in the Minnesota-based Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study, we investigated the associations among genetic and environmental influences on IQ, parenting, parental expectations for offspring educational attainment, engagement in school, and school grades. All variables showed substantial genetic…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Educational Attainment, Child Rearing, Intelligence Quotient
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Newman, Joan; Bidjerano, Temi; Ozdogru, Asil Ali; Kao, Chin-Cheng; Ozkose-Biyik, Cagri; Johnson, John J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
The activities and self-direction allowed after school provide children in different countries with distinct developmental opportunities that promote culturally valued orientations and outcomes. Fourth-grade children in Bulgaria, Taiwan, and the United States (countries with contrasting social values and expectations) reported their usual…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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Brown, Joe H.; Portes, Pedro R. – Journal of School Counseling, 2006
The present paper discusses some of the current issues confronting practitioners and researchers in understanding gender differences in children's adjustment to divorce. Gender differences in children's developmental adjustment to divorce are influenced by pre and post divorce development processes, parent expectation and children's coping…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Parent Influence, Expectation
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Zhou, Aibao; Ma, Xiaofeng; Hajime, Aoyagi – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
This study investigates 727 parents from China, Japan, and Korea by a self-devised scale and compares the differences in their expectation of early childhood education in cross-cultural backgrounds. The result shows that parents from the three countries have a positive attitude toward their children's development. The main effect of nations on…
Descriptors: Expectation, Early Childhood Education, Children, Interaction