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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
Relations between the everyday activities of preschoolers and their teachers' perceptions of their competence in the first years of school
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Volume 18, No. 1, Year 2003
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This paper contributes to a growing literature that suggests that in order to understand the transition to school, one should employ an ecological approach. Such an approach involves simultaneous consideration of individual and contextual factors, studied over time. Much of the current literature on the transition focuses on the transition from the perspective of school, but we were interested in relations between what occurs prior to school and performance in school. We used Bronfenbrenner's Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) ecological model to focus primarily on the relations between school-relevant activities of preschool-aged children and teachers' subsequent perception of the children's competence once they had entered school. At Time 1 we observed 20 3-year-olds' engagement in everyday activities (Process) and their initiation of those activities (Person) over a 20-hour period covering the equivalent of an entire waking day. Children were drawn from two social classes (Context). The preschool observations were followed by 2 consecutive years of teacher reports of academic competence following entry into elementary school (Times 2 and 3). Middle-class preschoolers engaged in more school-relevant activities than did working-class children, and preschoolers who initiated and engaged in more conversations were subsequently perceived by their teachers as being more competent. © 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tudge, Jonathan Richard Henry
United States, Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Odero-Wanga, Dolphine
Kenya, Njoro
Egerton University
Hogan, Diane M.
Ireland, Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
Etz, Kathleen E.
United States, Bethesda
National Institute on Drug Abuse Nida
Statistics
Citations: 93
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0885-2006(03)00005-X
ISSN:
08852006
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health