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The Impact of Multicultural Literature on Empathy Development in Third-Grade Students: A Pilot Study
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Direct linkGordon, Linda K. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to discuss a pilot study conducted in a graduate action research class that sought to investigate the impact of multicultural literature experiences on third-grade students' ability to make empathetic connections in their writing and discussions about literature. Conducted as participant action research, five…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Empathy, Childrens Literature, Multicultural Education
Spies, Carolyn; And Others – 1986
Results of two experiments support the finding of developmental change in the role of representation in perspective-taking tasks. Experiment 1, which involved 80 first-grade students with a mean age of 6.5 years, crossed task characteristics and response modes. Subjects either imagined an observer's movement around a fixed array or imagined an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3
Butler, J. S.; Sibulkin, Amy E. – 1987
A total of 33 kindergarten children and 33 third grade students were shown videotapes of children in commonly distressing situations, in order to elicit affective and cognitive responses. The children indicated how the stories made them feel (empathy), why the story characters felt as they did (perspective taking), their desire for the characters…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Empathy, Grade 3
Download full textOakes, Ruth; Quina, Katherine – 1983
A study was made of the effects of role perspective and gender on the moral judgments of children. Because they represent a transitional period in cognitive development from heteronomy to autonomy, a total of 25 male and 38 female third-grade students of approximately 9 years of age were selected for participation. The effect of perspective taking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Pellegrini, A. D.; And Others – 1984
To examine the relationship between children's social-cognitive status and the production of persuasive arguments and to determine the effects of age and the channel of communication on these arguments, 16 first grade, 17 third grade, and 16 fifth grade students were asked to produce both oral and written persuasive messages and were administered…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Faber, Ronald J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to compare the relative importance of several different variables from different theoretical perspectives in explaining how children understood the advertising on commercial television. Sixty-seven first and third grade students were interviewed individually to assess their current stage of logical operations and role taking,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Childrens Television
