Journal of Research in Childhood Education articles from September 2002

Journal of Research in Childhood Education archives from September 2002

The teacher's role in territorial conflicts of 2- to 3-year-old children.
September 22, 2002... Abstract The teacher's role in young children's conflicts is discussed on the basis of the literature and on the authors, study of children's territorial conflicts in Dutch and Finnish child care centers. Children's territorial conflicts...

Conflict resolution in a preschool constructivist classroom: a case study in negotiation.
September 22, 2002... Abstract The purpose of this study was to document a child's development of conflict resolution skills when a peer problem-solving model was used in a constructivist-designed classroom. At a laboratory preschool in an upper middle-class...

Play and social interaction of children with disabilities at learning/activity centers in an inclusive preschool.
September 22, 2002... Abstract This study of nine preschool children with disabilities in an inclusive program with typical peers examined the types of play and social interactions in which they engaged in their chosen learning/activity centers. The following...

Phonemic awareness and beginning reading and writing.
September 22, 2002... Abstract Vernon and Ferreiro (1999) took Spanish-speaking kindergartners' levels of writing as an independent variable and their performance on oral-segmentation tasks as the dependent variable. They found a highly significant multiple...

Joint writing in Hebrew of dictated words versus proper names: analysis of low SES mother-kindergartner dyads.(socio-economic status)
September 22, 2002... Abstract Maternal writing mediation style was explored and compared across two writing activities. Mothers of low socio-economic status were videotaped while joint writing with their kindergartners on a home-like activity (writing a list...

The effects of native language books on the pre-literacy skill development of language minority kindergartners.
September 22, 2002... Abstract ********** Many schools in the United States are experiencing significant increases in language minority student populations (West, Denton, & Hausken, 2000). In one large, suburban school district in the southeastern United...

Young children's thinking in relation to texts: a comparison with older children.
September 22, 2002... Abstract This study investigated the thinking in which young children engage in relation to authentic literature as expressed in their unassisted retellings. Young children (ages 5 and 6) were read a narrative text and then engaged in an...

An assessment of the North Carolina school-age child care accreditation initiative.
September 22, 2002... Abstract The primary purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the North Carolina Quality Enhancement Initiative (NC QEI) improved the overall quality of the 26 participating school-age child care programs in three North...

Chinese children's self-perceptions of ability in physical education.
September 22, 2002... Abstract This study examined grade-related changes in Chinese children's self perceptions of ability in physical education. Students (n = 131) in 4th, 8th, and 11th grades from three public schools in Shanghai, the People's Republic of...

An asset model: preparing preservice teachers to work with children and families "of promise".
September 22, 2002... Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the preparation of preservice teachers to work with children and families "of promise," based on the perceptions and experiences of students in the course titled "Principles of...