Peer Groups and Children's Development

✍ Scribed by Christine Howe(auth.), Judy Dunn(eds.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Peer Groups and Children’s Development considers the experiences of school-aged children with their peer groups and its implications for their social, personal and intellectual development

• Focuses on the peer group experiences of children attending school in Western societies, from five years of age through to adolescence
• Considers peer groups in classrooms, friendships made within and outside of school, and the groups that children participate in for extra-curricular activitiesContent:
  Chapter 1 Peer Groups in a Cultural Context (pages 1–18):
  Chapter 2 Peer Groups and Classroom Structure (pages 19–42):
  Chapter 3 Performance and Cooperation in Classrooms (pages 43–69):
  Chapter 4 Cooperative Interaction and Curriculum Mastery (pages 70–90):
  Chapter 5 Friendship, Status, and Centrality (pages 91–114):
  Chapter 6 Individual Differences in Informal Experiences (pages 115–141):
  Chapter 7 Social and Personal Adjustment (pages 142–163):
  Chapter 8 School Performance Revisited (pages 164–181):
  Chapter 9 Implications for Practice and Future Research (pages 182–200):