Children's friendships in culturally diverse classrooms /
[Book]
James G. Deegan.
Washington, D.C. :
Falmer Press,
1996.
108 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
The world of childhood and adolescence
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-101) and index.
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 culturally diverse classrooms -- Children's friendships in a fifth-grade culturally diverse classroom in Atlanta, Georgia -- The friendly cultural stranger as self-critical reflexive narrator -- An inquiry approach for investigating children's friendships with student teachers 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.
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This book addresses children's friendships as a fundamental human interest and concern. Using illustrative data drawn from children's perspectives on their friendships, it examines what it is like to be and have friends and how children's developing conceptions of friendships become embedded in their peer cultures. The book also highlights children's friendships as motivational contexts for social learning in the present culture of school.