Role Adjustment as the Unit of Analysis for Researching Child Development during the Transition to School

Autor/in	Ma, Junqian
Titel	Role Adjustment as the Unit of Analysis for Researching Child Development during the Transition to School
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 32 (2023) 1, (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ma, Junqian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.2373
Schlagwörter	Child Development; School Readiness; Asians; Developmental Tasks; Case Studies; Student Adjustment; Role Perception; Learning Processes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Entwicklungsaufgabe; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Learning process; Lernprozess; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	While child development is well-recognized as a complex process which could hardly be decomposed into separate lines or domains in contemporary psychological theories, the decomposition approach is widely used in empirical studies. Based on the cultural-historical theory, this study argues for adopting the unit of analysis as a way to bridge this gap, and finds "role adjustment" as a suitable unit to analyse child development during the transition to school. The case of a 5-year-old second-generation Chinese Australian child's transition to school (with a total of 34 h of observation and 5 h of interview) is presented to verify its feasibility and to illustrate how it could be achieved in a research practice. The case study demonstrates that a child's role adjustment is in essence a process of transforming his/her role system, during which his/her major roles, the relation of the major roles, as well as his/her role-taking patterns change as a whole, and by tracing a child's role adjustment trajectory, how the child is learning and developing, what difficulties he/she encounter, and why these difficulties appear become clear. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01