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Benigno, Grace Marie R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study examined the everyday mathematical experiences and understandings of three, 4-year-old, African-American children from working-class backgrounds. The study drew on Street, Baker, and Tomlin's (2005) broad, ideological model of mathematics as "social" and their analytic concepts of mathematical events (units of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Young Children, African American Children, Working Class
Kaul, Teri – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Asthma is the leading cause of chronic illness among children in the United States, with a disproportionately higher incidence among minority children. In an attempt to increase understanding of the factors that may influence self-management of chronic disease, the study examined the relationship between self-efficacy belief and asthma…
Descriptors: African American Children, Health Services, Self Efficacy, Chronic Illness
Mordaunt, Owen G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
This article provides a brief description of the linguistic features of African-American English (AAE) and reviews the positions that have been taken up about its role in American education, ranging from those in which AAE is seen as an obstacle to the education of black children to those in which it becomes a language that is different from…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, Models, North American English
Smith-D'arezzo, Wendy M.; Musgrove, Margaret – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2011
The authors examined the sociocultural representations of black children in picture books. Three critical perspectives were used to examine 23 picture books containing black characters. Questions used in this critical analysis were derived from sociocultural implications of implicit messages within texts, critical literacy, and cultural and social…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, Picture Books, Reader Response
Martin, Danny Bernard – Educational Foundations, 2012
While research by scholars has contributed greatly to an emerging knowledge base on Black children and mathematics, there continues to be a dire need for insightful research that de-centers longstanding accounts that have contributed to the construction of Black children as mathematically illiterate and as less than ideal learners relative to…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Mathematics Education, Research Methodology
Pergamit, Michael R. – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2010
Nearly one in five U.S. youths will run away from home before age 18. Almost 30 percent of these youth will do so three or more times, greatly increasing their risk of violence, crime, drugs, prostitution, STDs, and many other problems. Employing new methodology to yield estimates not available elsewhere, this paper follows a nationally…
Descriptors: Runaways, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Incidence
Humphries, Marisha L.; Keenan, Kate; Wakschlag, Lauren S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
Children's social and emotional competence abilities have been linked to successful social interactions and academic performance. This study examined the teacher and observer ratings of social and emotional competence for 89 young (3- to 5-year-old), African American children from economically stressed urban environments. There was a specific…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, African American Children, Interpersonal Competence, Competence
Harden, Brenda Jones; Sandstrom, Heather; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Persistent disparities exist between African American children and their European American counterparts across developmental domains. Early childhood intervention may serve to promote more positive outcomes among African American children. The current study examined whether and how the Early Head Start (EHS) program benefited African American…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, African American Children, Child Rearing
Peele-Eady, Tryphenia B. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2011
In this article, the author explores how African American children in a Black church Sunday school community in northern California developed positive membership identity. Focal participants were Sunday school children ages 9 to 12 and their Sunday school teachers. Drawn from a two-year ethnographic study, data showed that adults prepared children…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Ethnography, Interpersonal Relationship
Wilson, Travis; Rodkin, Philip C. – Child Development, 2011
With a sample of African American and European American 3rd- and 4th-grade children (N = 486, ages 8-11 years), this study examined classroom ethnic composition, peer social status (i.e., social preference and perceived popularity as nominated by same- and cross-ethnicity peers), and patterns of ethnic segregation (i.e., friendship, peer group,…
Descriptors: African American Children, Ethnicity, Social Status, Social Integration
Baker, Claire E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2013
The relations between fathers' and mothers' home literacy involvement at 24 months and children's cognitive and social emotional development in preschool were examined using a large sample of African American and Caucasian families ("N" = 5190) from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
Borum, Valerie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2012
In a qualitative study employing an exploratory design, the researcher explored the perceptions of communication choice and usage among 14 African American hearing parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. Semistructured, in-depth thematic interviews were used with a modified grounded-theory approach in which themes were analyzed and coded.…
Descriptors: Socialization, Oral Tradition, African American Culture, Partial Hearing
Zhang, Yuanting; Lee, Gary R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The United States is one of the major baby-receiving countries in the world. Relatively little research has focused on why there is such a high demand for intercountry adoption. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with adoptive parents, the authors explored the reasons why Americans prefer to adopt foreign-born children instead of adopting…
Descriptors: African American Children, Race, Placement, Supply and Demand
McNair, Jonda C. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
This study examines how African American children--in grades kindergarten through 2--and their parents selected books within the context of a unique family literacy program entitled, "I Never Knew There Were So Many Books About Us!: Parents and Children Reading African American Children's Literature Together". This study is informed by…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, Interests, Kindergarten
Qi, Cathy H.; Kaiser, Ann P.; Marley, Scott C.; Milan, Stephanie – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
The purposes of the study were to determine (a) the ability of two spontaneous language measures, mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU-m) and number of different words (NDW), to identify African American preschool children at low and high levels of language ability; (b) whether child chronological age was related to the performance of either…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Morphemes, Age Differences, Expressive Language