Donna Eder
Biographic Data
| ID | 129103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Eder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Eder |
| SIGNATURE | EDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 519 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Role of Storytelling in Understanding Children's Moral/Ethic Decision-Making
As students advance in their education, the use of stories and specifically the process of storytelling often wane from the central mode of learning to be replaced with more didactic methods and content-driven applications. However, the use of stories has remained a central component of moral/ethics education and continues to be used as a foundation for values instruction. The process of storytelling can be seen as a central component to understa…
Gossip at Work: Unsanctioned Evaluative Talk in Formal School Meetings
This article uses a form of linguistic ethnography (LE) to analyze videotaped recordings of gossip that took place during formal school meetings.By comparing these gossip data against existing models of gossip based on data collected in informal settings, the authors identify eleven new response classes, including four forms of indirectness that operate to cloak gossip under ambiguity and seven forms of avoidance that change the trajectory of gos…
Bringing Navajo Storytelling Practices into Schools: The Importance of Maintaining Cultural Integrity
This article examines storytelling practices among Navajos as one example of a non-Western approach to education. The article discusses two stories-one regarding the perspectives of Navajo storytellers concerning the importance of the context of storytelling practices and the other about the research process that led to these perspectives. Eight storytellers were interviewed about storytelling practices in the past and those they would like to se…
Interviewing Children and Adolescents
Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth: Theoretical and Ethical Issues
Developing Adolescent Peer Culture through Collaborative Narration
Narrative discourse offers the opportunity for expressing and evaluating multiple points of view and especially for contrasting one’s own perspective with that of others as one selects, recounts, and dramatizes the details of an episode from the past. Through both self-presentation and alter casting-that is, projecting an identity for others (Weinstein & Deutschberger 1963)-storytellers propose a particular outlook on their situation, distinguish…
Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship. Jill McLean Taylor , Carol Gilligan , Amy M. Sullivan
School talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
Children and gender learning from kids boys and girls together but mostly apart gender separation - why and how creating a sense of opposite sides do girls and boys have different cultures? crossing the gender divide lip gloss and goin' with - becoming teens lessons for adults
The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community
Lesbian feminists have strived to create communities responsive to both lesbian and feminist concerns. The potential conflict between affirming a lesbian identity and supporting the feminist value of diversity are explored through this examination of the National Women's Music Festival. Based on interviews and field notes collected over a three-year period, we found that the prolesbian focus of this festival strengthened lesbian identity for many…
The Effect of Middle School Extra Curricular Activities on Adolescents' Popularity and Peer Status
This article examines the effects of extracurricular activities on students' popularity and peer status in middle school as well as the processes by which these effects occur. Findings from qualitative and quantitative data provide support for different gender dynamics regarding status, whereby females do not show the consistent gains in status that males experience. The findings also indicate how popularity and peer status processes do not alway…
No Exit: Processes of Social Isolation in the Middle School
Many adolescents experience feelings of social rejection and anxiety when they are not accepted by a particular peer group. However, the problems that social isolates encounter are much greater. Although the bulk of research has assumed that peer rejection is primarily due to the rejected student's poor social skills, some researchers have recently turned their attention to situational and environmental factors. In this study, ethnographic data w…
The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females
This paper examines the development of feeling norms underlying romantic love among early adolescent females. On the basis of data from in-depth interviews, transcriptions of naturally occurring discourse, and field notes, we find that girls not only acquire cultural knowledge about romantic love, but also develop several feeling and expression norms to deal with their own concerns about romance. These norms involve the relative importance of rom…
Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture
The Structure of Gossip: Opportunities and Constraints on Collective Expression among Adolescents
Previous studies of gossip among adolescents have found a strong tendency toward consensus and negative evaluation in gossip episodes. However, few attempts have been made to examine the actual structure of this common speech activity. We recorded and analyzed 16 gossip episodes that occurred in adolescent conversations in a middle school setting. We used a combination of ETHNO and sociolinguistic analysis to examine the overall ordering of acts …
Building Cohesion Through Collaborative Narration
Although self-disclosure has been shown to be an important verbal means for conveying and strengthening solidarity in very close relationships, little attention has been paid to other ways in which talk is used to convey and develop solidarity among friends. This paper shows how talk is used to build cohesion by examining collaborative talk, in which an utterance supports or ratifies the previous utterance in some manner. Although collaborative t…
The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture
Donna Eder, Stephen Parker, The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture, Sociology of Education, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 200-213
Peer Influence on Classroom Attention
The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female Adolescents
Despite evidence that friends -are extremely important to adolescents, there has been little research on early adolescent peer relations, especially on peer relations among girls. The research that exists suggests that girls and boys have very different relationships with peers and that entry into middle school is often a difficult transition for adolescent girls. This article examines peer relations among girls in a middle school setting using d…
Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction
Humor serves a number of purposes in interaction among adolescent friends. A study of predominantly female peer groups in a middle-school setting revealed that humor is utilized in different ways depending upon the size of the group and the degree of closeness among its members. Telling memorized jokes is something which occurs frequently within newly formed, mixed-sex, or mixed-age groups. Within this context, humor is often used to establish a …
The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society
Adolescent Socialization in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention
This study looks at contextual effects within the elementary classroom by examining the extent to which students' ability group assignments affect their rate of becoming inattentive. The data include behavioral measures of attentiveness obtained from 16 video-taped lessons of first grade reading groups. These data were analyzed using a continuous-time, stochastic model in which the dependent variable is an instantaneous rate of change from the st…
Organizational Constraints and Individual Mobility: Ability Group Formation and Maintenance
While assignment to ability groups and curriculum tracks is ostensibly based on students' aptitude for learning, previous research has found that student aptitude explains only a small portion of the variance in curriculum placement. Likewise, while ability grouping has been described as very flexible, studies have found that little movement between groups actually occurs. This study examines ability grouping in a first-grade classroom in order t…
The impact of management and turn‐allocation activities on student performance∗
Recent studies have shown that the teacher's role includes a variety of management and turn‐allocation activities. Although these activities are likely to be performed concurrently with more academic tasks, little is known about their possible impact on academic interactions between teachers and students. This paper examines the effect of management and turn‐allocation activities on students' reading performance during classroom lessons. Teacher‐…
The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female Adolescents
Despite evidence that friends -are extremely important to adolescents, there has been little research on early adolescent peer relations, especially on peer relations among girls. The research that exists suggests that girls and boys have very different relationships with peers and that entry into middle school is often a difficult transition for adolescent girls. This article examines peer relations among girls in a middle school setting using d…
Sex Differences in Children's Friendships
This paper examines sex differences in the exclusiveness of children's dyadic friendships. First, differences in the frequencies of triad types representing exclusive and nonexclusive dyadic friendships are compared. As expected, girls are found to have a greater frequency of exclusive triads than boys while boys are found to have a higher percentage of nonexclusive triads than girls. Girls are also shown to have a higher frequency of exclusive t…
The Structure of Gossip: Opportunities and Constraints on Collective Expression among Adolescents
Previous studies of gossip among adolescents have found a strong tendency toward consensus and negative evaluation in gossip episodes. However, few attempts have been made to examine the actual structure of this common speech activity. We recorded and analyzed 16 gossip episodes that occurred in adolescent conversations in a middle school setting. We used a combination of ETHNO and sociolinguistic analysis to examine the overall ordering of acts …
The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females
This paper examines the development of feeling norms underlying romantic love among early adolescent females. On the basis of data from in-depth interviews, transcriptions of naturally occurring discourse, and field notes, we find that girls not only acquire cultural knowledge about romantic love, but also develop several feeling and expression norms to deal with their own concerns about romance. These norms involve the relative importance of rom…
The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture
Donna Eder, Stephen Parker, The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture, Sociology of Education, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 200-213
Ability Grouping as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A Micro-Analysis of Teacher-Student Interaction
The Effect of Middle School Extra Curricular Activities on Adolescents' Popularity and Peer Status
This article examines the effects of extracurricular activities on students' popularity and peer status in middle school as well as the processes by which these effects occur. Findings from qualitative and quantitative data provide support for different gender dynamics regarding status, whereby females do not show the consistent gains in status that males experience. The findings also indicate how popularity and peer status processes do not alway…
The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community
Lesbian feminists have strived to create communities responsive to both lesbian and feminist concerns. The potential conflict between affirming a lesbian identity and supporting the feminist value of diversity are explored through this examination of the National Women's Music Festival. Based on interviews and field notes collected over a three-year period, we found that the prolesbian focus of this festival strengthened lesbian identity for many…
Building Cohesion Through Collaborative Narration
Although self-disclosure has been shown to be an important verbal means for conveying and strengthening solidarity in very close relationships, little attention has been paid to other ways in which talk is used to convey and develop solidarity among friends. This paper shows how talk is used to build cohesion by examining collaborative talk, in which an utterance supports or ratifies the previous utterance in some manner. Although collaborative t…
Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth: Theoretical and Ethical Issues
Gossip at Work: Unsanctioned Evaluative Talk in Formal School Meetings
This article uses a form of linguistic ethnography (LE) to analyze videotaped recordings of gossip that took place during formal school meetings.By comparing these gossip data against existing models of gossip based on data collected in informal settings, the authors identify eleven new response classes, including four forms of indirectness that operate to cloak gossip under ambiguity and seven forms of avoidance that change the trajectory of gos…
No Exit: Processes of Social Isolation in the Middle School
Many adolescents experience feelings of social rejection and anxiety when they are not accepted by a particular peer group. However, the problems that social isolates encounter are much greater. Although the bulk of research has assumed that peer rejection is primarily due to the rejected student's poor social skills, some researchers have recently turned their attention to situational and environmental factors. In this study, ethnographic data w…
Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction
Humor serves a number of purposes in interaction among adolescent friends. A study of predominantly female peer groups in a middle-school setting revealed that humor is utilized in different ways depending upon the size of the group and the degree of closeness among its members. Telling memorized jokes is something which occurs frequently within newly formed, mixed-sex, or mixed-age groups. Within this context, humor is often used to establish a …
Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention
This study looks at contextual effects within the elementary classroom by examining the extent to which students' ability group assignments affect their rate of becoming inattentive. The data include behavioral measures of attentiveness obtained from 16 video-taped lessons of first grade reading groups. These data were analyzed using a continuous-time, stochastic model in which the dependent variable is an instantaneous rate of change from the st…
Bringing Navajo Storytelling Practices into Schools: The Importance of Maintaining Cultural Integrity
This article examines storytelling practices among Navajos as one example of a non-Western approach to education. The article discusses two stories-one regarding the perspectives of Navajo storytellers concerning the importance of the context of storytelling practices and the other about the research process that led to these perspectives. Eight storytellers were interviewed about storytelling practices in the past and those they would like to se…
Peer Influence on Classroom Attention
The impact of management and turn‐allocation activities on student performance∗
Recent studies have shown that the teacher's role includes a variety of management and turn‐allocation activities. Although these activities are likely to be performed concurrently with more academic tasks, little is known about their possible impact on academic interactions between teachers and students. This paper examines the effect of management and turn‐allocation activities on students' reading performance during classroom lessons. Teacher‐…
Organizational Constraints and Individual Mobility: Ability Group Formation and Maintenance
While assignment to ability groups and curriculum tracks is ostensibly based on students' aptitude for learning, previous research has found that student aptitude explains only a small portion of the variance in curriculum placement. Likewise, while ability grouping has been described as very flexible, studies have found that little movement between groups actually occurs. This study examines ability grouping in a first-grade classroom in order t…
Sex Differences in Children's Friendships
This paper examines sex differences in the exclusiveness of children's dyadic friendships. First, differences in the frequencies of triad types representing exclusive and nonexclusive dyadic friendships are compared. As expected, girls are found to have a greater frequency of exclusive triads than boys while boys are found to have a higher percentage of nonexclusive triads than girls. Girls are also shown to have a higher frequency of exclusive t…
Schooling for Women's Work
Ability Grouping as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A Micro-Analysis of Teacher-Student Interaction
The impact of management and turn‐allocation activities on student performance∗
Recent studies have shown that the teacher's role includes a variety of management and turn‐allocation activities. Although these activities are likely to be performed concurrently with more academic tasks, little is known about their possible impact on academic interactions between teachers and students. This paper examines the effect of management and turn‐allocation activities on students' reading performance during classroom lessons. Teacher‐…
Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention
This study looks at contextual effects within the elementary classroom by examining the extent to which students' ability group assignments affect their rate of becoming inattentive. The data include behavioral measures of attentiveness obtained from 16 video-taped lessons of first grade reading groups. These data were analyzed using a continuous-time, stochastic model in which the dependent variable is an instantaneous rate of change from the st…
Organizational Constraints and Individual Mobility: Ability Group Formation and Maintenance
While assignment to ability groups and curriculum tracks is ostensibly based on students' aptitude for learning, previous research has found that student aptitude explains only a small portion of the variance in curriculum placement. Likewise, while ability grouping has been described as very flexible, studies have found that little movement between groups actually occurs. This study examines ability grouping in a first-grade classroom in order t…
Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction
Humor serves a number of purposes in interaction among adolescent friends. A study of predominantly female peer groups in a middle-school setting revealed that humor is utilized in different ways depending upon the size of the group and the degree of closeness among its members. Telling memorized jokes is something which occurs frequently within newly formed, mixed-sex, or mixed-age groups. Within this context, humor is often used to establish a …
The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society
Adolescent Socialization in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Peer Influence on Classroom Attention
The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female Adolescents
Despite evidence that friends -are extremely important to adolescents, there has been little research on early adolescent peer relations, especially on peer relations among girls. The research that exists suggests that girls and boys have very different relationships with peers and that entry into middle school is often a difficult transition for adolescent girls. This article examines peer relations among girls in a middle school setting using d…
The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture
Donna Eder, Stephen Parker, The Cultural Production and Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture, Sociology of Education, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 200-213
Building Cohesion Through Collaborative Narration
Although self-disclosure has been shown to be an important verbal means for conveying and strengthening solidarity in very close relationships, little attention has been paid to other ways in which talk is used to convey and develop solidarity among friends. This paper shows how talk is used to build cohesion by examining collaborative talk, in which an utterance supports or ratifies the previous utterance in some manner. Although collaborative t…
The Structure of Gossip: Opportunities and Constraints on Collective Expression among Adolescents
Previous studies of gossip among adolescents have found a strong tendency toward consensus and negative evaluation in gossip episodes. However, few attempts have been made to examine the actual structure of this common speech activity. We recorded and analyzed 16 gossip episodes that occurred in adolescent conversations in a middle school setting. We used a combination of ETHNO and sociolinguistic analysis to examine the overall ordering of acts …
The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females
This paper examines the development of feeling norms underlying romantic love among early adolescent females. On the basis of data from in-depth interviews, transcriptions of naturally occurring discourse, and field notes, we find that girls not only acquire cultural knowledge about romantic love, but also develop several feeling and expression norms to deal with their own concerns about romance. These norms involve the relative importance of rom…
Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture
No Exit: Processes of Social Isolation in the Middle School
Many adolescents experience feelings of social rejection and anxiety when they are not accepted by a particular peer group. However, the problems that social isolates encounter are much greater. Although the bulk of research has assumed that peer rejection is primarily due to the rejected student's poor social skills, some researchers have recently turned their attention to situational and environmental factors. In this study, ethnographic data w…
School talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
Children and gender learning from kids boys and girls together but mostly apart gender separation - why and how creating a sense of opposite sides do girls and boys have different cultures? crossing the gender divide lip gloss and goin' with - becoming teens lessons for adults
The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community
Lesbian feminists have strived to create communities responsive to both lesbian and feminist concerns. The potential conflict between affirming a lesbian identity and supporting the feminist value of diversity are explored through this examination of the National Women's Music Festival. Based on interviews and field notes collected over a three-year period, we found that the prolesbian focus of this festival strengthened lesbian identity for many…
The Effect of Middle School Extra Curricular Activities on Adolescents' Popularity and Peer Status
This article examines the effects of extracurricular activities on students' popularity and peer status in middle school as well as the processes by which these effects occur. Findings from qualitative and quantitative data provide support for different gender dynamics regarding status, whereby females do not show the consistent gains in status that males experience. The findings also indicate how popularity and peer status processes do not alway…
Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship. Jill McLean Taylor , Carol Gilligan , Amy M. Sullivan
Developing Adolescent Peer Culture through Collaborative Narration
Narrative discourse offers the opportunity for expressing and evaluating multiple points of view and especially for contrasting one’s own perspective with that of others as one selects, recounts, and dramatizes the details of an episode from the past. Through both self-presentation and alter casting-that is, projecting an identity for others (Weinstein & Deutschberger 1963)-storytellers propose a particular outlook on their situation, distinguish…
Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth: Theoretical and Ethical Issues
Interviewing Children and Adolescents
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works)