Peer Argument In Educational Settings: Variations Due To Socioeconomic Status, Gender, And Activity Context  

Oleh:

Howe, Christine ; McWilliam, Donna

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 1-2 (2001), page 61-80.
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Identified as an important force toward intellectual growth, peer argument is now promoted within educational policy. Nevertheless, implementation of policy is unclear, particularl when effective argument is known to be possible during the preschool years. One source of uncertainty is data indicating that the form of preschool argument varies with socioeconomic status (SES) and gender, and the study to be reported here was intended to probe this matter further.The study was based on recordings of the arguments held by 125 nursery school children. Observations were made in four activity contexts. Most children displayed sophisticated tactics, for example, justifying positions and selecting alternatives. However, sophisticated tactics were interspersed with rudimentary ones, for example, physical force and bland assertions, and (even with activity context taken into account) the manner of interspersion was dependent onSESand gender.The implications for educational policy and pragmatic theory will be discussed.

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