This article presents a conceptual analysis of life in preschool and public school kindergarten classrooms, and explores issues and implications related to the following question: Will children differ in the kinds of students they become based upon whether or not their first school experiences occurred in a preschool or in kindergarten? (Author/JL)

This article compares and contrasts a predominantly White preschool and a predominantly Black Head Start program to determine how education might better serve children who come from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Research and results are discussed, and suggestions for culturally responsive education are made. (JL)

Children's joint production and maintenance of a peer culture in preschool settings is crucial to their development of a social identity. Theoreticians and researchers should consider what it is actually like to be a child to understand better how children's activities model and prepare them for the adult world. (Author/JL)

This article focuses on young children's perceptions of teachers and mothers and compares the perceptions of preschool and kindergarten children with respect to the roles of these important adults. It concludes that children's perceptions are socially constructed based on their experiences within the school setting. (Author/JL)

This article examines the abilities children exercise in a variety of record-making activities, including mapping, quantification, and music notation. The ways teachers and educational climates promote different versions of literacy are discussed. Children's conceptions of literacy are examined. (JL)

Teaching strategies used in fifth-grade classrooms which illustrate three teacher orientations--learning, work, and a lack of work or learning orientation--are described. Six interrelated strategies that support the orientation include: framing lessons; attention focus and redirection; treatment of errors; responsibility for learning and…

Classrooms and other formalized settings have a predictable effect on student behavior and can be manipulated by educators to facilitate learning. (LH)

Student teachers tend to stress those skills most emphasized in the teaching techniques of their cooperating teachers in their own subsequent teaching methods. (LH)

A description is given of the different ways a child participates and interacts at home and at school and speculates on these differences as sources of potential misunderstanding between teachers and children as they engage in academic activities. (JD)

This article examines classroom organizational patterns and the focus, content, and strategies of instruction to show that the basal reader, rather than reading comprehension, is what is being taught. A skills model of reading, the basal approach, does not reflect what readers do to make sense of text. (IAH)

Summarizes lessons learned across two programs of research which featured peer collaboration to promote advanced literacies, including text comprehension and scientific reasoning, identifying lessons learned from reciprocal teaching research and ways that this research influenced the design of cognitive tools and intellectual roles, which were…