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Searched on Exact phrase of CROSS CULTURAL STUDIES in the index terms;.
Returned 19 results.
- Universal Prekindergarten in New Jersey: Teacher Preparation and Professional Development in New Jersey's Abbott Districts
By Evelyn K Moore; July 2004
Description: This report presents articles by three early childhood education leaders to articulate the challenges, cautions, and lessons to be learned from New Jersey’s Abbott Districts. The impact of a Bachelor’s...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=29460 (100.00%)
- Maternal Roles and Social Competence: Parent-Infant Interactions in Two Cultures.
By Yu-Jun Chen, Jeanette A. McCollum; 2001
Description: A study compared Euro-American and Taiwanese mothers' descriptions of the social competence benefits of early parent-child interaction and what they do during interactions to achieve these benefits. Visual...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=26595 (100.00%)
- Evaluation of Pedagogical Quality in Early Childhood Education: A Cross-National Perspective.
By Kathe-Maria Schuster, Sonja Sheridan; 2001
Description: Examined how the concept of quality in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) is concretized in pedagogical processes in a comparison of classroom observations in Germany and Sweden. Observers...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25811 (100.00%)
- Investigations of Temperament at Three to Seven Years: The Children's Behavior Questionnaire.
By Stephan A. Ahadi, Phillip Fisher, Karen L. Hershey, Mary K. Rothbart; 2001
Description: Reviews evidence on reliability and validity of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ); presents CBQ data on structure of temperament in childhood. Factor analyses indicate three broad dimensions...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25755 (100.00%)
- Silences and Subtexts of Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Children.
By Glenda MacNaughton; 2001
Description: Explored 4- and 5-year-old immigrant and nonimmigrant children's words and silences when they were asked about similarities and differences among 4 ethnic dolls. Found that skin color was salient in children's...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25727 (100.00%)
- "G" Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street
By Shalom M. Fisch, Rosemarie T. Truglio; 2001
Description: Evidence from a National Survey of Children' (Nicholas Zill); (8) ''Sesame Street' Viewers as Adolescents: The Recontact Study' (Aletha C. Huston, Daniel R. Anderson, John C. Wright, Deborah L. Linebarger,...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25565 (100.00%)
- Children's Early Literacy Environment in Chinese and American Indian Families.
By Ronan Bernas, Philippe Eberhard, Xiao-lei Wang; April 2001
Description: This study examined how Chinese and American Indian mothers support their young children's early literacy development in everyday interactions. Twenty mother- child dyads in each cultural community participated...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25166 (100.00%)
- Structural-Developmental Theory and Children's Experience of Nature.
By Peter H. Kahn; April 2001
Description: How do people whose identities appear so deeply connected to the land they love engage in environmentally harmful activities? This paper explores this question presenting selected research on children's...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=25149 (100.00%)
- Maternal Caregiving and Infant Security in Two Cultures.
By Gloria Alzate, Maria R. Bhstamante, Olga A. Carbonell, Amanda Jacobs, German Posada, Julio Quiceno, Melissa Y. Richmond; 2002
Description: Examined maternal care and infant attachment security in a sample from the United States (Colorado) and one from Colombia. Found that maternal sensitivity and infant security were significantly associated...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=24521 (100.00%)
- Quality of Chilean Early Childhood Education from an International Perspective.
By Maria Olivia Herrera, Maria Elena Mathiesen, Emy Suzuki, Malva Villalon; 2002
Description: Assessed the quality of different types of early childhood care and education programs in Chile according to international standards. Compared findings to those of programs in Europe. EJ650997 quality...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=24354 (100.00%)
- A Need for Active Learning: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
By Russell J. Firlik; 2002
Description: This paper asserts that a modern elementary classroom in which broadly based international perspectives are fostered and global understanding realized, is one in which the teacher, as a co-learner in the...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=24106 (100.00%)
- Self-Esteem and Narcissism: Implications for Practice.
By Lillian Katz; August 01, 1993
Description: While the development of children's self-esteem is a worthwhile goal in early education, many practices designed to reach this goal may instead be encouraging narcissism. Such practices include those that...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=16596 (100.00%)
- A Welcome for Every Child: How France Protects Maternal and Child Health: A New Frame of Reference for the United States.
By Gail Richardson, The French-American Foundation; January 01, 1994
Description: This report presents findings of a study tour organized by the French-American Foundation, for 13 United States' health care professionals to examine and interpret the nearly 50-year-old French maternal...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=17165 (100.00%)
- Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives: Part I.
By Public Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; January 01, 1991
Description: Presents Healthy People 2000's school-related objectives, focusing on those that can be attained directly by schools (arranged under the eight components of a multidimensional school health program) and...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=17170 (100.00%)
- Family-Centered Care for Children Needing Specialized Health and Developmental Services.
By Terri L. Shelton, Jennifer Smith Stepanek; September 01, 1994
Description: This monograph articulates eight key elements of a family-centered approach to policy and practice for children needing specialized health and developmental services. An introductory section reviews the...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=17171 (100.00%)
- Child Care in the Latino Community: Needs Preferences, and Access.
By Raymond Buriel, Maria T. Hurtado; August 01, 1998
Description: Between January 1997 and April 1998, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) conducted a survey of 93 non-Hispanic white and 303 Latino mothers in two Southern California cities to examine child care...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=3736 (100.00%)
- The Problem of Low Birth Weight.
By Nigel S. Paneth; Spring 1995
Description: REHS0013 Problem The Future of Children: Low Birth Weight 5 1 19-34 1995 Spring 1995 Center for the Future of Children The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=3565 (100.00%)
- The Role of Lifestyle in Preventing Low Birth Weight.
By Lilian W.Y. Cheung, Virginia Rall Chomitz; Spring 1995
Description: Discusses the relationship between lifestyle choices and low birth weights and the opportunity that pregnancy offers women for adopting more healthful lifestyle behaviors. It reviews the literature that...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=3559 (100.00%)
- Evidence-Based Ethics and the Care of Premature Infants.
By Jon Tyson; Spring 1995
Description: REHS0013 Evidence The Future of Children: Low Birth Weight 5 1 197-213 1995 Spring 1995 Center for the Future of Children The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=3555 (100.00%)