Day care interactions and teacher perceptions as a function of teacher and child ethnic group

From: Journal of Research in Childhood Education | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract. Teachers' perceptions of children and teacher-child interactions have been studied as a function of ethnic group in older children, but not in preschool children. Furthermore, schools that are predominantly African American and Hispanic (children and teachers) have been largely ignored, or else the studies have grouped children from various minority groups into a single category. The present study examined low-SES preschool classrooms that are predominantly African American and Hispanic. Hispanic teachers described Hispanic boys as having high levels of difficulties, and they ...

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