Parental Teaching Styles in an Open-Ended Teaching-Learning Environment.

Williamson, Peter A.; Silvern, Steven B.

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ERIC Number: EJ349771

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Publication Date: 1986

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Parental Teaching Styles in an Open-Ended Teaching-Learning Environment.

Williamson, Peter A.; Silvern, Steven B.

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, v1 n4 p407-15 Dec 1986

This study extends earlier work on parental teaching style and examines effects of parental intrusiveness on a subsequent task. Analysis of audio recordings of 22 Caucasian middle-class parent-child dyads audiotaped over a two-week period while dyads were learning aspects of LOGO computer programing showed that children of directive parents performed best on a subsequent generalization task. (DR)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Middle Class, Parent Child Relationship, Parents as Teachers, Teaching Styles, Verbal Communication, Whites

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