Gender-typicality of activity offerings and child-teacher relationship closeness in German "Kindergarten". Influences on the development of spelling competence as an indicator of early basic literacy in boys and girls

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-65

  Wolter, Ilka ^a,b   Glüer, Michael ^a,c   Hannover, Bettina ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boys' underachievement in school; Child kindergarten teacher relationship quality; Gender differences in development of basic early literacy skills; Gender typicality of learning activities; Overrepresentation of female teachers in German "Kindergarten"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896730340     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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