The reading behavior of a group of English-as-a-Second-Language students in a preuniversity interactive reading strategy training program was studied. Results suggest that a learner-centered reciprocal teaching technique can help poor comprehenders to read with greater efficiency. (Contains six references.) (LB)

Interviewed adolescents in Northern Ireland to investigate their experiences with the divorce process and help provided by family, friends, and professionals. They considered the separation/divorce process long, frequently underpinned by acrimony and violence. Extended family and peers provided great support. Many teens used specialist counselors…

Examines feasibility of using a new theoretical model to determine the association between parenting factors and conduct disorder in Jamaican male adolescents. Discusses issues within the framework of family, peer group, and biological factors associated with conduct disorder. Significant family factors associated with the emergence of conduct…

Argues that students' attitudes about authorship and intellectual property rights are evidence of cultural habits of mind. Overviews perceptions of literary products as public and/or private property. Explores conflicts in legal notions of textual ownership relating to copyrights and the idea/expression dichotomy in American Constitutional law.…

Presents a model of peer group supervision and highlights findings from a qualitative exploration of this approach with master's degree counseling students and doctoral candidate supervisors. Emergent themes from the exploration pertain to supervisee's development; benefits of peer interactions and process-sensitive peer group supervision;…

Reviews selective research on collaborative writing and then shows how group dynamics and peer review techniques can be integrated into classroom group writing projects. (TB)

Compares methods of identifying aggressive/bullying and victimized youngsters in a middle school sample. Findings reveal that teachers' and research associates' rating of students' aggression were significantly correlated, and that the ability of different peer and self-report measures to identify youngsters at different levels of aggression and…

The present study examined (a) whether groups of children can be empirically identified with distinct longitudinal profiles of depressed mood from late childhood through early adolescence, (b) to what extent these different longitudinal depression profiles are predicted by problematic relations with parents, same-sex peers, and other-sex peers,…

Parents, educators and social commentators have repeatedly claimed that passive media consumption can harm children. Building on recent attempts to understand how children actively interpret media, the authors use an interpretive model of socialization to analyze fieldnote excerpts from a Taiwanese kindergarten and first grade. Contrary to popular…

This study examined childhood and adolescent risk factors for males' reports of getting someone pregnant during adolescence. These questions were examined in an urban sample of 335 African American males involved in a prospective, longitudinal study. Childhood aggression significantly predicted reported pregnancies during adolescence. Boys who…

Educators often expect students with intellectual disabilities in inclusive elementary school classrooms to develop social competence through interactions with their peers. In this qualitative study, semi structured indepth interviews were used to investigate elementary school teachers' perspectives on student social competence, the quality of…

This study draws from interviews with 20 girls in British Columbia, Canada who participated to varying degrees in skateboarding culture. We found that skater girls saw themselves as participating in an "alternative" girlhood. Becoming skater girls involved the work and play of producing themselves in relation to alternative images found…

The data in this article come from an ethnographic exploration into the construction of masculinities in three junior schools in the UK between 1998 and 1999. The author argues that the construction and performance of masculinity is inextricably linked to the acquisition of status within the school peer group, and he delineates the specific series…

This paper describes the research approach of a case study ethnography. The study sought to explore the peer group understandings of five male friends aged between six and eight years. In exploring the social dynamics of peer culture, and in particular how these dynamics interacted to define, regulate and maintain particular understandings of…

One important factor related to ill-structured problem-solving success is intrinsic motivation, that is, students' willingness to persist in solving the problem. Goal orientation, a motivational variable, explains reasons why students engage in the activity because they want to either learn or perform. This study investigated the relationship…