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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S IDEAS ABOUT COUNTRY AND NATIONALITY
Author(s) -
JAHODA GUSTAV
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1963.tb00562.x
Subject(s) - nationality , confusion , psychology , representation (politics) , situated , middle class , working class , gender studies , sociology , geography , political science , archaeology , law , psychoanalysis , immigration , politics , artificial intelligence , computer science
S ummary . A random sample of children aged 6–11 in four Glasgow schools was interviewed and tested, two situated in middle‐class and two in working‐class districts. The formation of concepts relating the series of units Glasgow‐Scotland‐Britain is traced in terms of both verbal formulation and spatial representation. The difficulty for younger children of such concepts as ‘town’ and ‘country’ is demonstrated. The emergence of national identification is described, indicating the major sources of initial confusion.