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  • Parent-Child Participation in Planning Children's Activities Outside of School in European and Latino Families
    Date: 03/01/2005
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This longitudinal research used a sociocultural perspective to examine planning competence in the everyday experiences of European American and Latino children from 7 to 9 years of age. Data on children's participation in planning their activities outside of school, parental expectations about children's planning competence, and children's ... »
  • The Connection between Afterschool Programs and In-School Success: The Science Mentoring Project
    Date: 03/01/2005
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This study investigated the ways in which the Science Mentoring Project, an afterschool program with a youth development focus and mentoring component, helped fifth-grade participants develop key competencies in five areas: personal, social, cognitive, creative, and civic competencies. Development of these competencies, in turn, positively ... »
  • Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings
    Date: 01/01/1992
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The lion's share of my current research program is devoted to the study of learning in the blooming, buzzing confusion of inner-city classrooms. My high-level goal is to transform grade-school classrooms from work sites where students perform assigned tasks under the management of teachers into communities of learning ( Bereiter & Scardamalia ... »
  • Minorities and the Detroit Zoo
    Date: 01/01/1990
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In this paper, researchers from University of Michigan discuss a major problem facing zoo administrators in major urban metropolitan areas: the relevance and attraction of urban zoos to inner-city minority residents. They present an overview of the methodology and findings from a study that examined zoo visitation to the Detroit Zoo by white and ... »

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