Books written by Anthony D. Pellegrini

Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer

For this reason, many psychologists, such as Vygotsky (1962), Pavlov (1927), and Bruner (Bruner, Olver, and Greenfield, 1966) considered language to be an important instrument of advanced thinking. In this light, then, ...
The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition

However excessive co-rumination has been found to be prospectively associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression, especially amongst girls (Rose, Carlson & Waller, 2007). It may also be the case, as noted earlier, ...
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer, Second Edition

Videotape some kids on a playground. Go through the tape and code social and nonsocial behaviors of that tape. One week later try it again. Did you agree? Try doing this with another person. 10 Validity At a very simple level, ...
Applied Child Study: A Developmental Approach

Stebbin, L., St. Pierre, R., Proper, E., Anderson, R., & Gerva, T. (1976). Education as experimentation: A planned variation model (Vol. 4-A). Cambridge, MA: Abt. Steinberg, L., Dornbusch, S.M., & Brown, B.B. (1992).
The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition

Rogers (1982) used the notion of the tipster and the racehorse to help explain this distinction. The success of the tipster might be measured in terms of the accuracy of their predictions about runners in a race, but we would be ...
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer, Second Edition

Although thisvery general definitionof contextis useful in understanding the interrelations between individuals« behavior andthesituation inwhichthey are embedded (seeHinde, 1976,foran exhaustive description of context), ...
Recess: Its Role in Education and Development

Girls, relative to boys, however, should more frequently be observed in games requiring verbal facility, such as chanting, hopscotch, and jump rope games (Goodwin, 1990; Heath, 1983; Janikas, 1993; Lever, 1975/1976; Maccoby, 1998; ...
Child's Play: Developmental and Applied

First, it would be useful to know what experiences or more basic underlying developments account for specific changes in the childs play. Second, what interrelationships both in timing and manifestation can be demonstrated among these ...
The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

The origins of human nature offers readers the first book-length attempt to define the field of evolutionary developmental psychology -- the application of the principle of natural selection to explain contemporary human development.
The Role of Play in Human Development

Pellegrini argues that play is an excellent example of the influence of biology and culture on one other, especially during childhood.
Psychology of Education: Social behaviour and the school peer group

Basingstoke : Macmillan in association with Mind Publications Foucault , M. ( 1977 ) Discipline and Punish . London : Penguin Fulani , L. ( Ed . ) ( 1988 ) The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism .
Applied Child Study: A Developmental Approach

Consequently, simple answers and solutions to problems are very often just that: too simple. This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function.
Child's Play: Developmental and Applied

Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests that social and behavioural scientists have in play, development and the environment.
The Development of School-based Literacy: A Social Ecological Perspective

Based on a longitudinal study in U.S. homes and schools, the authors present the results of how diverse and close social relationships influence children's literacy learning as they progress through the first three years of formal schooling ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play

The role of play in human development has long been the subject of controversy. This book examines the development of children's play through a rigorous and multidisciplinary approach.
School Recess and Playground Behavior: Educational and Developmental Roles

Sides in a pro-recess and anti-recess debate have been drawn. Two main reasons are normally addressed by those opposed to recess (see Blatchford, 1988). First, it is argued by the antis that recess detracts from needed instructional ...
Psychology of Education: Schools, teachers and parents

Conversations in the nursery : how they contribute to aspirations and plans . Language and Education , 6 , 141-148 . Sylva , K. , Roy , C. & Painter , M. ( 1980 ) . Childwatching at playgroup and nursery school .
School Recess and Playground Behavior: Educational and Developmental Roles

Patterns of play and social interaction in pre - school children . In N. Blurton Jones ( ed . ) , Ethological studies in child behaviour ( pp . 65-96 ) . London : Cambridge University Press . ( 1980 ) . The ecology of preschool behavior ...
Psychology of Education: The school curriculum

The evolution of transactional strategies instruction in one teacher's classroom . Elementary School Journal , 94 , 221–233 . Brown , R. , & Pressley , M. ( 1994 ) . Self - regulated reading and getting meaning from text : The ...
The Nature of Play: Great Apes and Humans

"Comprehensive and up to date, this tightly edited volume belongs on the desks of researchers and students in developmental psychology, comparative psychology, animal behavior, and evolutionary psychology, and will also be of interest to ...