Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years: (Language and Learning for Human Service Professions)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0893911747
ISBN 13
9780893911744
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1985
Publisher
Pages
336
Description
Based on a year-long micro-ethnography of a nursery school, this book presents a unique approach to childhood socialization by focusing directly upon the social, interactive, and communicative processes that make up the world of young children. It contains micro-sociolinguistic analyses of videotaped peer interactive episodes which are the basis of explanations of children's development and use of social concepts such as status, role, norms, and friendship. Stable features of peer culture in the nursery school are identified, and the importance of interpreting children's behavior from their own perspective is demonstrated. The author also addresses the implications of the findings for early childhood education. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
6
