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Direct linkCappella, Elise; Hwang, Sophia H. J.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Yates, Miranda – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2018
Given the potential of afterschool programs to support youth in urban, low-income communities, we examined the role of afterschool classroom ecology in the academic outcomes of Latino and African American youth with and without social-behavioral risk. Using multireporter methods and multilevel analysis, we find that positive classroom ecology…
Descriptors: Urban Programs, After School Programs, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
Medin, Douglas; Waxman, Sandra; Woodring, Jennie; Washinawatok, Karen – Cognitive Development, 2010
We consider young children's construals of biological phenomena and the forces that shape them, using Carey's (1985) category-based induction task that demonstrated anthropocentric reasoning in young urban children. Follow-up studies (including our own) have questioned the generality of her results, but they have employed quite different…
Descriptors: American Indians, Beliefs, Children, Urban Youth
Peer reviewedNoble, Grant; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1977
Children with experience of creative drama significantly improved their self and man drawings and gave more verbal descriptions showing awareness of individual differences for both current and future self. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Creative Dramatics, Disadvantaged Youth, Individual Differences
Weisner, Thomas S., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
"Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development" provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Family Life, Qualitative Research
