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Impression Management in Kindergarten Classrooms: An Analysis of Children's Face-Work in Peer Interactions.

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Hatch, J. Amos – 1984

A systematic analysis was made of the communications of 5- and 6-year-old children in two kindergarten classrooms to discover whether children's face-to-face interactions with peers included "face work" components (rituals through which individuals manage impressions when it becomes difficult to maintain a social situation) and, if so,…

Descriptors: Aggression, Classroom Research, Communication Research, Communication Skills

Status and Social Power in a Kindergarten Peer Group.

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Hatch, J. Amos – Elementary School Journal, 1987

Reports a study of kindergarten children's strategies for acquiring and protecting status in interactions with peers. Focusing on children's negotiations of relative social standing in face-to-face interactions, discusses strategies children used to improve and defend their relative positions in the social structure of their peer group. (NH)

Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Kindergarten Children