A total of 40 target children, ranging in age from 10 months to 4 years 10 months (mean age 31 months) and their mothers, took part in a study, involving a game of "feeding fish" with different sized marbles in order to test the relation between maternal praise and performance in children. The mothers and children were videotaped in their homes. It was established that children improved their p...

This study adopts a sociocultural approach to examine the language socialisation of lower age novice-newcomer recently arrived in Finnish open day care centre. A mixed method combining ethnographic analysis and quantitative has been used analyse video-recordings. The results suggest that when educators recognise novice-newcomer’s diverse needs deploy thereby multimodal socialising strategies (i...

BACKGROUND Professional socialisation and identity arise from interactions occurring within university-based interprofessional education, and workplace-based interprofessional practice experience. However, it is unclear how closely language and concepts of academic learning situations align with workplace contexts for interprofessional learning. This paper reports on a study that brought togeth...

We hypothesised a gender speciŽ c relationship between efŽ cacy and three components of racial identity, feeling that achievement is part of being black, feeling connected to the black community, and sensitivity to, awareness of outgroup barriers and racism. Because male gender socialisation downplays relationality, the ‘‘connectedness’’ component of racial identity was posited to be particular...

Instrumental Calculation, Cognitive Role-Playing, or Both? Self-Perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission Zuzana Murdoch and Benny Geys* Most work studying micro-processes of integration – i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution – offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or socialisation. Thi...

Transitions into work and family roles have become increasingly delayed as participation in tertiary education widens. Such transitions may have adverse or beneficial effects on health behaviours such as smoking and drinking (alcohol). Role socialisation effects may reduce smoking or drinking, but clustering of transitions may lead to role overload, weakening or reversing any role socialisation...