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Human-Centeredness Is Not a Universal Feature of Young Children's Reasoning: Culture and Experience Matter when Reasoning about Biological Entities
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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
Tourism, Tolerance, or Hospitality? An Assessment of a Native/Non-Native, Urban/Rural Youth Exchange Program between Fort Good Hope, NWT, and East Vancouver, BC
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Hern, Matt – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
This article considers and assesses a youth exchange project between two community-based youth centers: The Purple Thistle Centre in East Vancouver, British Columbia, and the K'asho Got'ine Youth Centre in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Both centers serve primarily low-income youth, but after that the similarities are very few. The…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Youth Programs, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
Creativity in Rural, Urban, and Indian Children
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Williams, John D.; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: American Indians, Creativity Research, Grade 4, Lower Class Students
Head Start Evaluation and Research Center, The University of Chicago. Report F, Socialization into the Role of Pupil.
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Shipman, Virginia C.; Hess, Robert D. – 1967
Early childhood experience is often crucial in establishing the cognitive and affective structures of the child. In particular, the preschool experience of the lower class child establishes patterns of responsive behavior and ways of relating to the authority structure of the school which are not conducive to academic learning and prevent the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Annual Reports, Cognitive Development
Student Attrition within a Rural-Urban VTAE District in Wisconsin. Final Report.
Farning, Max; And Others – 1979
A study was conducted to identify the significant factors of student attrition in Wisconsin's postsecondary vocational, technical, and adult education system to determine predictability, and to indicate areas for improvement of retention measures. Survey instruments were developed to gather data from 121 non-completers and instructors. A third…
Descriptors: American Indians, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Minority Groups
America's Other Youth: Growing up Poor.
Gottlieb, David, Ed.; Heinsohn, Annie L., Ed. – 1971
Contents of part one, Puerto Rican Youth, of this book, includes: excerpts from "Two blocks apart: Jan Gonzales and Peter Quinn," C. Mayerson; excerpts from "Up from Puerto Rico," E. Padilla; excerpt from "Spanish Harlem," P. Sexton; and "Poverty on the lower east side . . .," P. Montgomery. Contents of part two, Migrant Workers Youth, includes:…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Youth, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Rural Youth: The Neglected Minority. A Presentation in the College of Education Dialogue Series, New Mexico State University.
Edington, Everett D. – 1978
Rural youth are a diverse group not only geographically, but socioeconomically, ethnically, and culturally as well. Historically, the rural student has not achieved as well as his urban counterpart in high school or in post secondary education. There is evidence that this is beginning to change and that rural students are doing as well or better…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Aspiration, Cultural Differences