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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830947203321

Autore

Howe Christine

Titolo

Peer groups and children's development [[electronic resource] /] / Christine Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-47220-8

9786612472206

1-4443-1809-8

1-4443-1810-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 233 p. ) : ill

Collana

Understanding children's worlds

Classificazione

5,3

CQ 6000

CQ 6400

Disciplina

305.231

Soggetti

Child development

Interpersonal relations in children

Friendship in children

Age groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Peer groups in a cultural context. Introduction. Cultural dependency. Theoretical framework. Piaget and Sullivan. Group socialization theory. Peer groups and children's development. Overview of contents. An inter-disciplinary perspective. Chapter 2: Peer groups and classroom structure. Introduction. The peer group structure of classes. Class size. Selective assignment. The structure of classroom subgroups. Cultural and local influences upon classroom structure. Size and selectivity. Competing pressures. Summary and conclusions. Chapter 3: Performance and cooperation in classrooms. Introduction. Whole-class interaction and the performance mode. The ubiquitous IRF. Individual differences in performance roles. Subgroup interaction and the cooperative mode. Sitting in groups versus working with groups. Cooperative learning. Role differentiation in classroom subgroups. Summary and conclusions. Chapter 4: Cooperative interaction and curriculum mastery. Introduction. Piagetian perspectives upon



cooperative interaction. Socio-cognitive conflict, transactive dialogue and exploratory talk. Group work in science. Resolving differences. Assistance and cooperative interaction. Helping and learning. Assistance versus contrasting. The social impact of classroom interaction. Selecting mechanisms. Social judgments in classrooms. Conclusions. Chapter 5: Friendship, status, and centrality. Introduction. Children's friendships. Membership of friendship groups. The qualities of friends. Similarity and complementarity. Peer status in formal groups. Socio-metric relations. Assigning status. Beyond the classroom. Status in friendship groups. Ethnographic approaches. The concept of centrality. Conclusions. Chapter 6: Individual differences in informal experiences. Introduction. Varying experiences of status. Sociability, aggression and withdrawal. Behavioural characteristics and status. Behavioural characteristics in context. Friendship and status compared. Sociability and friendship. Aggression, friendship and centrality. Continuity and change. Context dependency . Conclusions. Chapter 7: Social and personal adjustment. Introduction. Peer groups and antisocial behaviour. Rejection and antisocial behaviour. Friendship and antisocial behaviour. Mutual support or bad examples. Peer groups and personal adjustment. Status and internalizing difficulties. Internalizing versus externalizing. Rejection and neglect. The protective status of friendship. Summary and conclusions. Chapter 8: School performance revisited. Introduction. Peer groups and educational failure. Status and performance. Status and friendship. Diverse consequences of friendship. Friends and academic polarization. Towards an integrated perspective. Classroom practice and developmental outcomes. Chapter 9: Implications for practice and future research. Summary and introduction. Remedial work with individuals. Skills training for at-risk children. Skills training in context. Qualified endorsement of the cooperative approach. Maximizing the 'promotiveness' of promotive interaction. The problem of aggression. Teacher involvement. Future research and theoretical development. Developing the socio-cultural perspective. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

'Peer Groups and Children's Development' considers the experiences of school-aged children with their peer groups - in both formal and informal settings - and the implications of these experiences for their social, personal and intellectual development.