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If young children pose many questions, especially how and why questions, to their parents at home, we might expect them to adopt the same information-gathering stance toward their teachers at school. Tizard and Hughes (1984) examined this issue by making recordings of the same set of children when they were at home with their mothers and when they were at preschool. They found that all children, irrespective of social class, asked many fewer questions at preschool. Indeed, sustained and tenacious questioning of an adult occurred rarely, if ever, in preschool, whereas it was fairly common at home with the mother. As Tizard and Hughes point out, even if children gain various social benefits from being in preschool with other children, they appear to have fewer opportunities for learning via dialogue with an adult.

Quote ID: 01924

Author

Paul Harris

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Trusting What You’re Told

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