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Savas-Ulkuer, Nurper – 1986
A longitudinal research project was initiated in the spring of 1988 in Ankara, Turkey in selected gecekondu settlements. A gecekondu is a hastily constructed dwelling used to house newcomers to large cities. Gecekondu dwellers are predominantly disadvantaged, rural people who have migrated to the fringes of urban areas and whose children usually…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Ecological Factors, Foreign Countries
Kreppner, Kurt – 1983
The analysis presented here focuses on different problem situations extracted from everyday interactions in which individual developmental changes of the child interfere with well-established interaction patterns of the family. These problem situations require conjoint mastery of two objectives: (a) successful integration of the child into the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Developmental Tasks, Ecological Factors, Family Characteristics
Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden – 1991
This presentation describes research on families with mentally retarded children, focusing on trends since 1983, the year that family research issues were reconceptualized in a paper titled "A Model of Stress, Coping, and Family Ecology" by Keith Crnic and others. The trend analysis concentrates on four issues: (1) the magnitude of the impact of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Rearing, Coping, Ecological Factors
Newberger, Eli H.; Marx, Thomas J. – 1982
Members of a group of hospitalized children under 4 years of age (48 under care for child abuse, 97 for accidents, 41 for failure to thrive, and 23 for ingestions) were matched individually on age, social class, and race with controls suffering from comparable acute medical conditions. A structured maternal and paternal interview yielded 63…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Classification, Cluster Analysis
Lamb, Michael E. – 1977
This paper summarizes the findings of a series of studies on the effects of "ecological variables" on mother-father-sibling-infant interactions. Under consideration were: (1) the effects of stress on the parental preferences of young infants; (2) the effects of the presence of one parent on the interactions within the other parent-infant dyad; (3)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Ecological Factors, Emotional Development
Ulkuer, Nurper S. – 1989
This paper addresses the conditions of families in Ankara, Turkey, who live in gecekondus (hastily built homes of the poor). The socioeconomic and educational disadvantages of these families result in continuous academic underachievement for their children. Ecological and educational interventions for breaking the poverty cycle are proposed.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Ecological Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education