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Pfeffer, Karen; Olowu, A. A. – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Examines the effects of socialization on the size of Yoruba children's drawings of a man and a woman through use of the Draw a Person test. Findings support the prediction that male figures were drawn relatively larger than female figures only in the low income group, reflecting the gender inequality that appears typical of the Yoruba social…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Lower Class, Middle Class

Tzuriel, David – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Examined relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and mediated learning experience (MLE) in mother-child free-play and structured interaction situations, and how well MLE predicted cognitive performance of kindergartners. Found that MLE scores were positively related to SES, and higher in free-play than in structured situations, especially…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten Children

Williams, Susanne R. – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Examines background factors of nineteenth-century education, especially the development of systematic training for elementary school mistresses, and social class. Concentrates on Whitelands College's recruitment of future teachers with reference to their social class. (NH)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational History, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries