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The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children's Conversations in the Preschool Classroom
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Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K.; Uanhoro, James O. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Conversing abstract concepts boost children's language learning. Despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children's verbal participation in these…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Classroom Communication, Bayesian Statistics, Small Group Instruction
Using Ethnocentric Dialogic Education to Develop the Autonomy of Children in Africa: A Kenyan Study
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Corrado, Evelyn Wandia – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
Dialogue can be an excellent weapon for justice and liberation, which 'silenced' groups could use to challenge the status quo and authenticate their efficacy. Over the years, there has been a preconceived negative focus on Africans which has suppressed African children's autonomy. Consequently, there is a need to liberate the position of children…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Thick Explanation in the Ethnographic Study of Child Socialization: A Longitudinal Study of the Problem of Schooling for Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands) Children.
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Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Outlines a framework for examining children's socialization that combines microlevels and macrolevels. Applies the framework to a case study of student failure in the Solomon Islands. Concludes that children's failure had less to do with home socialization than with larger societal processes that shape schooling in the Solomons. (MM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Children, Classroom Communication
Documenting Productive-Reproductive Processes in Children's Lives: Transition Narratives of a Black Family Living in Poverty.
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Corsaro, William A.; Rosier, Katherine Brown – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Uses narratives of a mother and daughter to illustrate an interpretive model of socialization. Narratives were drawn from interviews and observations of a longitudinal ethnographic study of nine low-income African-American families. Explores the complex language and cultural routines that occurred during the daughter's transition from home to…
Descriptors: Black Family, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Early Childhood Education
English for Academic Purposes: The Student-talk Register.
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Cazden, Courtney B. – English Education, 1987
Reviews recent research on the nature of teachers' and students' talk in the classroom, specifically addressing the teachers' expectations of student talk and behavior. (SRT)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Communication Research
The Influence of Social Experience in the Classroom on Cognitive Development.
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Silverman, Paul S. – 1978
This study is an attempt to identify social interactions which fit into a Piagetian model for cognitive change, and specifically to examine the degree to which the frequency of those interactions predicts the rate of cognitive development. The subjects were 74 elementary school children enrolled in 19 K-4 classrooms. These children were in the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Classroom Communication
The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn. First Edition.
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment