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Classroom Dimensions Predict Early Peer Interaction when Children Are Diverse in Ethnicity, Race, and Home Language
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Howes, Carollee; Guerra, Alison Wishard; Fuligni, Allison; Zucker, Eleanor; Lee, Linda; Obregon, Nora B.; Spivak, Asha – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test a model for predicting preschool-age children's behaviors with peers from dimensions of the classroom and teacher-child relationship quality when the children were from diverse race, ethnic, and home language backgrounds. Eight hundred children, (M=age 63 months, SD=8.1 months), part of the National Evaluation…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Disadvantaged Youth, Peer Groups
Sociodramatic Play as a Method for Enhancing the Language Performance of Kindergarten Age Students.
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Levy, Ann K.; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992
Found a relationship between enriched sociodramatic play experiences and increases in children's language performance in the year before the children entered kindergarten. (BC)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Preparing the Classroom Environment to Promote Literacy during Play.
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Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1990
Examined 13 preschool classes to determine whether the voluntary literacy behavior of children could be increased by means of teacher-guided introduction of reading and writing materials into dramatic play areas. Thematic play with teacher guidance and literacy materials yielded significantly increased literacy behavior. (SH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
Knowing the Rules: Discursive Strategies in Young Children's Power Struggles.
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Jordan, Ellen; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1995
Provides a typology of power strategies used by young children, based on observations of early childhood classrooms. Distinguishes between violent and nonviolent strategies; within nonviolent strategies, between physical and discursive strategies; within discursive strategies, between the use of rules and other strategies; and within the use of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classification, Classroom Environment, Dramatic Play
The Ecology of Dramatic Play Centers and Children's Social and Cognitive Play.
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Howe, Nina; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1993
Used traditional housekeeping and novel dramatic play centers to compare the effects of theme, novelty, and duration on the social and cognitive play of two- to five-year olds. More dramatic play was observed in centers that used familiar rather than unfamiliar themes. Girls preferred traditional to novel centers; boys preferred novel to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Environment, Day Care, Dramatic Play
An Ecobehavioral Analysis of Early Childhood Classrooms.
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Kontos, Susan; Keyes, Lynette – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1999
Investigated the role of classroom characteristics and preschool children's complex interactions with teachers, objects and peers. Found that complex interactions with objects were most probable in dramatic play and in art activities with the teacher present. Complex peer interactions were rare, but complex teacher interactions were probable in…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Dramatic Play
The Influence of the Physical Design of the Dramatic Play Center on Children's Play.
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Petrakos, Harriet; Howe, Nina – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1996
Observed the effects of dramatic play center variations on children's social and cognitive play behaviors. Found that solitary-designed centers facilitated more solitary play than group-designed centers; dramatic play increased in the intervention and follow-up housekeeping centers compared to the baseline housekeeping center; and thematic centers…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques, Context Effect
"Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2: Play Contexts Revisited," by Stuart Reifel, Ed. Book Review.
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Bergen, Doris – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000
Notes that variety and difference in writing styles, methodology, and theoretical perspectives are both the greatest strength and greatest limitation of this book containing articles on child, adult, and animal play written by authors from education, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Suggests that readers can gain theoretical and…
Descriptors: Adults, Book Reviews, Child Development, Children
Self-Regulation in Young Children: Is There a Role for Sociodramatic Play?
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Elias, Cynthia L.; Berk, Laura E. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002
Explored contributions of complex sociodramatic play (CSP) in early childhood to self-regulation development for impulsive and nonimpulsive preschoolers. Found that Time 1 CSP positively correlated with, and solitary dramatic play negatively correlated with, self-regulation during Time 2 clean-up periods. The CSP/self-regulation relationship was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Psychology), Context Effect, Dramatic Play