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Kultti, Anne; Odenbring, Ylva – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The present study will shed light on peer interaction and children's positioning in preschool. Theoretically, the study takes its point of departure from the concept of interpretive reproduction, which stresses the importance of children's collective actions and participation in cultural production and reproduction. Positioning refers to how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Peer Relationship, Interaction
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Howe, Christine J.; McWilliam, Donna – Social Development, 2006
Occasions where children oppose each other have been claimed to convey intellectual benefits through their association with justification and resolution. They have been claimed to promote social rejection through their association with aggression. Because it is inconceivable that intellectual benefits imply social costs, either the relation…
Descriptors: Play, Interpersonal Communication, Personality, Interpersonal Relationship
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Jessee, Peggy O.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Investigated young children's social interactions with a baby in a group care setting. Observations of young children as they responded to an infant revealed differences in comforting, sharing, and cooperation according to age and sex. Also, toddlers' social interactions with the infant increased after the infant reached 18 months of age, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cooperation, Day Care
Dorval, Bruce – 1983
A study examined developmental trends in the quality and outcomes of disagreements occurring in the conversation of small groups of acquainted peers. Specifically, the study focused on the relationship of disagreeing and arguing sequences to the general level of topical coherence achieved in the conversation as a whole. Five discussion groups,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Coherence, Communication Research, Developmental Stages
Newman, Denis; Bruce, Bertram – 1984
Analysis of students' interpretations of a complex episode of social interaction was used to illustrate three features of human plans that distinguish them from robot plans and that form a basis for a theory of the development of social action. The features illustrated are that (1) human plans are social, (2) human plans operate on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Smith, H. W. – 1971
Data are presented which show: (1) that differences between adult and child psyches have important implications for age-stratified interaction process; and (2) that adult-child interactional differences cannot be solely attributable to genetic or psychological differences but that they are in part due to social factors. The data are based on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Group Dynamics