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Guyol, Genevieve G.; Chen, Futu; Boynton-Jarrett, Renée – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the association between neighborhood median income, child race/ethnicity, and parental perspectives and practical considerations regarding preschool program location. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of parents in Boston, Massachusetts planning to enroll in preschool (N = 1171). Questions measured parental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parents, School Location, Neighborhoods
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Smyth, Kirsty; Feeney, Aidan; Eidson, R. Cole; Coley, John D. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Social essentialism, the belief that members of certain social categories share unobservable properties, licenses expectations that those categories are natural and a good basis for inference. A challenge for cognitive developmental theory is to give an account of how children come to develop essentialist beliefs about socially important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Religion, Classification