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How Can The Stages Of Peck's Community-Making Model Be Identified Andpredicted For A Collegiate Basketball Team Over The Course Of Consecutive Seasons?, Troyann I. Gentile
How Can The Stages Of Peck's Community-Making Model Be Identified Andpredicted For A Collegiate Basketball Team Over The Course Of Consecutive Seasons?, Troyann I. Gentile
Troyann I. Gentile
The purpose of this study was to explore how Peck’s (1987) stages of Community-Making could be identified and predicted for a collegiate basketball team over the course of consecutive seasons by exploring Cohesion, Flow, and athletic performance. The study utilized a repeated measures longitudinal survey design with the members of a Division I collegiate level female basketball team (N = 13) during the athletic seasons of 1999/2000 and 2000/2001. Participants completed both the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Brawley, & Widmeyer, 2002) and the Flow State Scale -2 (Jackson & Eklund, 2003) pre and post competition at several times over the …
Constructing Meaning In Preschool Curricula (In Becoming A Student), Rebecca Kantor
Constructing Meaning In Preschool Curricula (In Becoming A Student), Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
No abstract provided.
First The Look And Then The Sound: Creating Conversations At Preschool Circle Time, Rebecca Kantor, Peggy Elgas, David Fernie
First The Look And Then The Sound: Creating Conversations At Preschool Circle Time, Rebecca Kantor, Peggy Elgas, David Fernie
Rebecca Kantor
Becoming a student means learning to interpret and construct the multiple demands for interaction in distinctive classroom events. For an increasing number of children, the preschool provides the setting for the first encounter with these complex and dynamic classroom communicative environments. This article presents an interactional analysis of preschool circle time from an ethnographic perspective. The social participation structure for conducting these events is uncovered using Green's conversational mapping system. Findings suggest that the rules and guidelines, expectations, and roles within the event change over time. The focus of learning within the event, evident in social action rules (Erickson, …
Understanding Natural Sciences Education In A Reggio Emilia-Inspired Preschool In America. Journal Of Research In Science Teaching, Hatice Inan, Kathy Trundle, Rebecca Kantor
Understanding Natural Sciences Education In A Reggio Emilia-Inspired Preschool In America. Journal Of Research In Science Teaching, Hatice Inan, Kathy Trundle, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This ethnographic study explored aspects of how the natural sciences were represented in a Reggio Emilia-inspired laboratory preschool. The natural sciences as a discipline—a latecomer to preschool curricula—and the internationally known approach, Reggio Emilia, interested educators and researchers, but there was little research about science in a Reggio Emilia classroom. The current research aimed to gain insight into natural science experiences in a Reggio Emilia-inspired classroom. To gain in-depth information, this inquiry-based study adapted a research design with ethnographic data collection techniques (i.e., interview, observation, document/artifact collection, and field-notes), namely Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence Method, which was a well-known, pioneer …
Reggio Emilia’S Approach To Early Care And Education: Creating Contexts For Discussione (Book Chapter), R. New, Rebecca Kantor
Reggio Emilia’S Approach To Early Care And Education: Creating Contexts For Discussione (Book Chapter), R. New, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
Book Synopsis: From approaches steeped in the history of education, child development, and the psychological sciences, to contemporary approaches that address multiculturalism and inclusion, this comprehensive book, with its contributions by major experts in the field, more thoroughly examines more topics and models than does any other book on the market. Coverage is strengthened by the broad-based expertise of the contributors and the exceptional reach of the programs chosen for discussion. Chapter topics cover programs for infants and toddlers, the Head Start program, a model preschool program for typical and special needs children, behavior analysis and principles in early childhood …
Being Kitties In A Preschool Classroom: Maintaining Group Harmony And Acting Proper In A Female Peer-Culture Play Routine, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Being Kitties In A Preschool Classroom: Maintaining Group Harmony And Acting Proper In A Female Peer-Culture Play Routine, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This study examines how young girls construct emotional themes in their peer-culture play routines and rituals in the daily life of a preschool classroom. This research is part of a larger eight-month ethnographic study of one preschool classroom. The data selected and analysed in this article are taken from a focused six-week theoretical sampling of five female preschool children's play. Micro-level analysis of the data (field notes, videotaping, video revisiting and interviews with teachers and students) revealed how children's peer-culture and emotional themes were socially constructed through a specific play narrative that centred on five females being ‘kitties’. A closer …
Cohesion In Spoken And Written Dialogue: An Investigation Of Cultural And Textual Constraints, Johanna Destefano, Rebecca Kantor
Cohesion In Spoken And Written Dialogue: An Investigation Of Cultural And Textual Constraints, Johanna Destefano, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
Interactions of language, culture, minority group membership, and literacy instruction in schools have evidently spelled success for some children but not for others. The purpose of this study was to explore an area of intersection among language use, ethnolinguistic group membership, and literacy learning materials to provide additional insight into the higher rates of literacy problems in urban black and Appalachian cultures. Specifically, it investigated how the informal discourse modes, exemplified by mother-child dialogue in a child's home environment, compared and contrasted with more formal discourse modes, exemplified by dialogue among characters in basal reader stories and in children's storybooks. …
Becoming A Person In The Preschool: Creating Integrated Gender, School Culture, And Peer Culture Positionings, David Fernie, Bronwyn Davies, Paula Mcmurray, Rebecca Kantor
Becoming A Person In The Preschool: Creating Integrated Gender, School Culture, And Peer Culture Positionings, David Fernie, Bronwyn Davies, Paula Mcmurray, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This article explores social processes related to the social competence of children evident in preschools and to researchers’ collaborative efforts to understand it. Drawing examples from the authors’ respective programs of research in the United States and Australia, we demonstrate how preschool children struggle to construct their full social membership in classroom discourse to achieve the often simultaneous accomplishment of oneself as a student, peer, and gendered person. With regard to research processes, we demonstrate how researchers with different but compatible theoretical#shresearch perspectives may widen their interpretive lenses through collaborative dialogue, the yield being a more multifaceted vision of young …
The Acquisition Of Classifiers In American Sign Language, Rebecca Kantor
The Acquisition Of Classifiers In American Sign Language, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
The purpose of this study was to obtain data on the developmental stages that deaf children pass through in acquiring the adult form of pronominal classifiers in American Sign Language, by obtaining data on production, comprehension, and imitation from nine children aged three to eleven years. All nine children are congenitally, profoundly deaf and have deaf parents. In all cases classifiers were mastered much later than would be predicted from a timetable for signs with similar structure. Evidence was found for a developmental sequence and for acquisition strategies similar to those that have been identified for hearing children learning a …
Viewed Through A Prism: Motherhood And Child Care, Rebecca Kantor, Rosemary Bolig
Viewed Through A Prism: Motherhood And Child Care, Rebecca Kantor, Rosemary Bolig
Rebecca Kantor
No abstract provided.
Educating Toddlers To Teachers: Learning To See And Influence The School And Peer Cultures Of Classrooms (Discourse And Social Processes), David Fernie, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Educating Toddlers To Teachers: Learning To See And Influence The School And Peer Cultures Of Classrooms (Discourse And Social Processes), David Fernie, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This book illustrates the usefulness of understanding classrooms as peer and school cultural venues for examining diverse topics at any and all grade levels. At the core of the volume are eight empirical ethnographic studies that employ a classroom as cultures framework. The voices of both children and teachers are ever-present in these analyses.
The Construction Of Schooled Discourse Repertoires: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective On Learning To Talk In Preschool, Rebecca Kantor, Judith Green, Mimi Bradley, Lichu Lin
The Construction Of Schooled Discourse Repertoires: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective On Learning To Talk In Preschool, Rebecca Kantor, Judith Green, Mimi Bradley, Lichu Lin
Rebecca Kantor
Analysis of the discourse demands across the school year within a recurrent event, “Circle Time,” is presented to show how 3- and 4-year-old students learned to be conversationally appropriate partners within a group setting, how the teacher's interactional patterns shifted as students learned to participate in socially and academically appropriate ways within this event, and how participation in the subevents of Circle Time (Milling, Transition, Singing, Talking, and Dismissal) placed differing social and communicative demands on both teacher and students. The overtime analysis of one Circle Time subevent, Talking, is presented to illustrate how 3- and 4-year-old students, in their …
Play And The Peer Culture: Play Styles And Object Use, Peggy Elgas, Elisa Klein, Rebecca Kantor, David Fernie
Play And The Peer Culture: Play Styles And Object Use, Peggy Elgas, Elisa Klein, Rebecca Kantor, David Fernie
Rebecca Kantor
In this paper, children's play and friendship in relation to the peer culture was examined from, an ethnographic perspective. Because the majority of interactions in the preschool take place during play, a unique view of the classroom may be obtained by examining the social dynamics of play in the peer culture. This view is based on the assumption that classroom life is at least partially constructed and negotiated through the peer culture. Nineteen children ages three to five, enrolled in a university preschool, were observed and data were collected through extensive videotaping and daily field notes taken by participant observers. …
Becoming Students And Becoming Ethnographers In A Preschool, David Fernie, Rebecca Kantor, Elisa Klein, Carol Meyer, Peggy Elgas
Becoming Students And Becoming Ethnographers In A Preschool, David Fernie, Rebecca Kantor, Elisa Klein, Carol Meyer, Peggy Elgas
Rebecca Kantor
Preschool poses unique schooling demands which challenge young children to become young students. This distinctive socialization process is the research problem addressed in an ethnography of a preschool classroom. The introduction details practical considerations which suggest the distinctiveness and importance of early education and of children's socialization to it. The first major section presents an integration of relevant socialization theories and a discussion of ethnography as a research perspective. In the next section, the ethnographic research procedures used in the study are explained generally. In a final section, a conceptualization of this preschool classroom as a dynamic configuration of school …
Communicative Interaction: Mother Modification And Child Acquisition Of American Sign Language, Rebecca Kantor
Communicative Interaction: Mother Modification And Child Acquisition Of American Sign Language, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
The communicative interaction in American Sign Language (ASL) of two deaf mothers with their deaf children was studied at 3-week intervals for 10 months to find what modification, if any, the mothers made in their language utterances addressed to the children (12–20 and 20–30 months old). As was hypothesized, and has been shown of hearing-speaking mothers’ language, modification in the direction of simplified and more linear language was found. Special attention was paid to POINTing behavior (i.e. pointing gestures constrained by the linguistic rules of ASL) and to verb “modulation” or inflection (changes from ASL citation forms to mark the …
Cultural Knowledge And Social Competence Within A Preschool Peer Culture Group, Rebecca Kantor, Peggy Elgas, David Fernie
Cultural Knowledge And Social Competence Within A Preschool Peer Culture Group, Rebecca Kantor, Peggy Elgas, David Fernie
Rebecca Kantor
In this ethnographic analysis, social competence and incompetence in an early childhood classroom is examined from a sociocultural perspective. Educational researchers with a sociocultural perspective hold that classrooms can be viewed as cultures where life is patterned, constructed over time by its members interacting with, and reacting to, each other. The study was conducted as part of a larger ethnography that has produced a series of mutually informing analyses that, in tum, have allowed the researchers to move back and forth between a broad understanding of everyday life and more focussed topics such as social competence. Thus, social success in …
Mixed-Age Grouping In Infant/Toddler Child Care: Enhancing Developmental Processes, Kimberlee Whaley, Rebecca Kantor
Mixed-Age Grouping In Infant/Toddler Child Care: Enhancing Developmental Processes, Kimberlee Whaley, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This article discusses the benefits of mixed-age grouping in infant/toddler child care programs. Single-age grouping limits the resources available in the room and disrupts developmental processes as young children move from room to room. Benefits of mixed-age grouping are discussed in terms of the children, parents, and teachers.