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Social Class Differences in Teacher Attitudes Toward Children
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Goldenberg, Irene – Child Development, 1971
Middle-class teachers were significantly more permissive and less puritanical in outlook, took more pleasure in the emotional aspects of teacher-pupil relationships, and showed less authoritarian attitudes toward children than did lower-class teachers. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Analysis, Lower Class, Middle Class
Free Play Behaviors in Middle- and Lower-Class Preschoolers: Parten and Piaget Revisited
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Rubin, Kenneth H.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
A total of 24 middle class and 16 lower class preschoolers were observed during free play period on 30 consecutive school days. The behaviors of the children were coded by combining the social play categories of Parten and the cognitive play schemes of Smilansky. Results indicate a significant difference in types of play by class. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Lower Class, Middle Class, Play
The Relation of Serial Recall Performance to Verbal and Nonverbal Encoding Strategies in Middle- and Lower-Class Children
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Lacher, Miriam R. – Child Development, 1976
Effects of action content and verbal codability of stimulus pictures, parental occupational status and verbal intelligence upon nonverbal serial recall were investigated in white first graders. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Lower Class, Memory
Speech Characteristics as a Function of Social Class and Situational Factors
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Jones, Pauline A.; McMillan, William B. – Child Development, 1973
Study was designed to examine social-class differences in speech as produced under three conditions varying from highly structured to a more natural linguistic setting. (Authors)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Kindergarten Children, Linguistic Competence, Lower Class
The Naive Theory of the Infant and Other Maternal Attitudes in Two Subgroups in Israel.
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Ninio, Anat – Child Development, 1979
High and low SES mothers of one- and three-year-old children (N=104) were interviewed. Results showed that low SES mothers believed that infants acquire basic cognitive skills later and that the introduction of cognitively stimulating activities should occur later than did high SES mothers. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infants, Lower Class