Children's Friendships In Culturally Diverse Classrooms

by James G. Deegan

Overview

Using material from American, Australian and British empirical studies, this book examines children's interests, needs, assets and capacities in multicultural classrooms and provides international comparisons on what it is like to "be" and "have" friends. The book also explores children's developing ideas of friendships and how they are linked to peer cultures And Looks Into How Such Friendships Can Motivate Children's Socializing in today's schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135720803
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	514 KB

About the Author

James G. Deegan

Table of Contents

Introduction - the promise of children's friendships in culturally diverse classrooms. Theoretical foundations of children's friendships in culturally diverse classrooms; roots and branches of research on children's friendships in mainstream and culturally diverse classrooms; children's friendships in a 5th-grade culturally diverse classroom in Atlanta, Georgia; the friendly cultural stranger as self-critical reflexive narrator; an inquiry approach for investigating children's friendships in a school-university partnership; two student teachers' beginning professional stories of studying children's friendships; frontiers and futures - linking theory, research and practice and the challenge of educational reform.

Editorial Reviews

Using illustrative data drawn from children's perspectives on their friendships, the author examines how children's developing conceptions of friendships become embedded in their peer cultures, and highlights children's friendships as motivational contexts for social learning in the present culture of school. He reports on his observations of a fifth-grade classroom in Atlanta, Georgia, as well recent American, British, and Australian studies, and outlines an inquiry approach for investigating children's friendships with student teachers in a school-university partnership. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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