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ERIC Number: EJ148654
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Growing Up with Ghosts
Shafer, Susan
Childhood Education, 53, 1, 29-32, Oct 76
A study of 34 third grade working class children of various ethnic backgrounds attempted to discover children's conceptions of ghosts. Children were exposed to information about ghosts and asked many "simple" and "wild" questions to elicit their conceptions. (MS)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups, Fantasy, Lower Class, Semantics
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