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Devi, Anamika – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2016
Very few studies have given attention to parental support for children's play-based conceptual development in a home setting. The key aspect of this paper is to investigate how parental support aids development of children's mathematical and science concepts in collective play in the home context and what happens to the play during parent-child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Play
Mehrotra, Jena; Sawyers, Janet K. – 1989
The influence of the home environment on the original thinking of 66 Indian preschoolers was investigated. Subjects were 36 boys and 30 girls (mean age, 4.6 years) randomly selected from a pool of 127 children from 7 classrooms in a preschool run by a quasi-governmental corporation. Tests were given in the child's first language, which was either…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cultural Influences, Family Characteristics, Family Environment
Mohite, Prerana – 1987
This study, completed in two stages, was undertaken to empirically determine whether home variables make a significant difference in the learning difficulties and school performance of children in an Indian setting. Participants in Phase I were 30 second-grade children between 6 and 9 years of age who were of normal intelligence and showed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education