Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

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Induced hypocrisy is considered as a new dissonance paradigm, in which two factors (normative commitment and mindfulness of past transgressions), are combined. The inconsistency between ‘what I am preaching’ and ‘what I have done’ is reduced via behavioral change in line with the prior preach. In this study, we compared two different operationalizations of commitment factor. In a paradigmatic c...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of reinforcement procedures in increasing cooperation and reducing disruptive behavior during restorative dental treatment. Four mentally retarded children received praise and tokens for cooperating with direct requests From the dentist and for sitting quietly in the chair; tokens could later be exchanged for toys. A multiple-baseline, across-subjects desi...

The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well complements the spoken languages. All key areas sociolinguistics, such multilingualism, language contact, variation, and attitudes—are immediate relevance to At same time, researchers using a range data sources methods (e.g., corpora, linguistic elicitation, ethnography) have showed that unique natures features allow us look at all these ...

Despite a powerful social norm that parents should treat offspring equally, beginning in early childhood and continuing through adulthood, parents often differentiate among their children in such domains as closeness, support, and control. We review research on how parent–child relationships differ within families, focusing on issues of parental favoritism and differential treatment of children...

The present study examines the language development among cocaine-exposed and non-exposed 24-month old inner-city children. Natural language data was collected from two groups of 17 mother-child dyads during a 5-minute semi-structured play session. Both groups of dyads were drawn from a large-scale on-going longitudinal study that has followed children and mothers since the second trimester of ...