The Effect of Classroom Ideology on Children's Production of Narrative Text.

Mosenthal, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ303683

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1984

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The Effect of Classroom Ideology on Children's Production of Narrative Text.

Mosenthal, Peter

American Educational Research Journal, v21 n3 p679-89 Fall 1984

In this study of 40 fourth graders and two teachers, the influence teacher ideological differences have on how children learn to write during classroom lessons was investigated. Analysis of narrative compositions based on a picture sequence revealed significant differences between student compositions for an academic teacher and a cognitive-developmental teacher. (BS)

Descriptors: Baseball, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Social Theories, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: The study was made possible by a grant from the Syracuse University Senate Research Committee. A version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (Boston, MA, November 1981).