Journal of Research in Childhood Education articles from June 2005

Journal of Research in Childhood Education archives from June 2005

"Give us a privacy": play and social literacy in young children.
June 22, 2005... Abstract. This study argues that children require social literacy to protect and sustain their play: In play, they construct an emotional landscape of "we"-ness to be protected from outsiders. The research consisted of a 4-month-long...

The development of logico-mathematical thinking a ages 1-3 in play with blocks and an incline.
June 22, 2005... Abstract. Fifty 1- to 3-year-olds were asked to imitate 1) the rolling of a cylinder down an incline and 2) the making of an incline with a board and a block. Their incorrect imitations and progress were videotaped and analyzed, and interpreted...

Cooperative and competitive orientations in 4-h and non-4-h children: a pilot study.
June 22, 2005... Abstract. This study constructed questionnaire measures of cooperative and competitive orientations, and pilot-tested them with 1,176 elementary school-age 4-H members and non-members. A measure of parent support was also obtained from these...

Individual differences in the school performance of 2nd-grade children born to low-income adolescent mothers: findings from an 8-year longitudinal study.
June 22, 2005... Abstract. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to individual differences in the school performance of 2nd-grade children born to adolescent mothers. The sample/'or this study was 90 low-income adolescent mothers...

Learning words: large group time as a vocabulary development opportunity.
June 22, 2005... Abstract. This study examines the role of curriculum as a vocabulary learning environment by comparing teacher's Large Group Time instruction in two curricula--Creative Curriculum (Dodge, Colker, & Heroman, 2000) and the Doors to Discovery...