Anne Mckeough
Biographic Data
| ID | 81895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Mckeough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeough |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEOUGH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supporting Indigenous children’s oral storytelling using a culturally referenced, developmentally based program
Indigenous communities in Canada have struggled with systemic inequities that have affected education outcomes of their children. In collaboration with a Stoney Nakoda community in Western Canada, a university research team, composed of Indigenous and non-Indigenous members, offered an instruction program designed to use storytelling as a gateway to early literacy development. Indigenous researchers and collaborators guided program adaptation to …
Reading dual language books: Improving early literacy skills in linguistically diverse classrooms
Research has determined that dual language books have a positive effect on literacy achievement, motivation, and family involvement in children’s schooling. In this study we used quantitative methods to complement the largely qualitative extant research. We analyzed the early literacy skills of 105 kindergarten children (45 comparison, 60 treatment) with diverse language backgrounds (35% English, 31% Punjabi, 16% Urdu, 18% other languages) from e…
Stories of family, stories of self: Developmental pathways to interpretive thought during adolescence
Research has shown that a hallmark of adolescent development is the growing capacity to interpret human intentionality. In this chapter, the authors examine developmental change in this capacity, which they have termed interpretive thought, in two types of stories, family and autobiographical, told by Canadian youth aged ten to seventeen years. Illustrative examples reveal that youth coordinate an increasing number of psychological components and…
Gender differences in preschoolers’ understanding of the concept of life
This study investigated gender differences in North American preschoolers’ biological reasoning about the concept of ‘life’. Four-year-olds (M = 4.6, SD = 3.3 months) and five-year-olds (M = 5.6, SD = 3.8 months) were asked about the function of 13 body parts, organs, and bodily processes. Results indicated that the likelihood of mentioning the importance of body parts, organs, and bodily processes for maintaining life or preventing death was pre…
Teaching Trickster Tales: A Comparison of Instructional Approaches
Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach, only the developmentally based method took into account students’ expected developmental growth pattern…
Teaching Preschoolers About Inheritance
This study aimed to promote advanced reasoning about biological inheritance in four-and five-year-olds. A total of 78 preschoolers (Experimental n = 40; Comparison n = 38) completed pre-and post-test versions of two biological reasoning tasks. The Experimental condition received 15 lessons on biological inheritance, whereas the Comparison condition received regular story time activities. The results showed that the Experimental group outperformed…
What shapes narrative thought: Effects of story type and culture
The primary aims of the study were to investigate the narrative strategies used by Italian and Canadian youth on progressive (improving interactions) and regressive (degenerating interactions) stories and to investigate potential differences in story interpretation across the two countries. Two hundred and six participants, matched for age, gender and SES, were selected from fifth and seventh grade classrooms in Calgary, Canada, and Florence, Ita…
Developing narrative interpretation: Structural and content analyses
Background.Narrative thought is a primary mode of human cognition that underpins key human capabilities such as meaning-making and social-psychological understanding.Aims.We sought to further our understanding of the development of narrative thought during adolescence, particularly in terms of the structure and content of narrative interpretations.Sample.Participants were 151 grade 4 to grade 12 students from six schools in a major urban centre i…
A narrative analysis of behaviourally troubled adolescents' life stories
The purpose of this study was to explore street youths' life histories to assess how early negative experiences (e.g., maltreatment) contributed to alternative developmental paths marked by emotional and behavioural difficulties. Ten male and female participants responded to an attachment questionnaire and told their life stories. The data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that both groups experienced…
Improving story complexity and cohesion: A developmental approach to teaching story composition
The aim of the present study was to analyze the relative effectiveness of two first grade instruction programs: a developmental program that focused on the structural and social-psychological components of stories and their cohesion and a process oriented approach. A total of 43 children participated in daily sessions over 3 months (experimental group N = 22, comparison group N = 21). Measures of conceptual language and oral narrative were obtain…
Teaching Storytelling: A Microgenetic Analysis of Developing Narrative Competency
The development of competency in narrative composition is acknowledged to be a complex process of central importance in the educational enterprise. Recent work suggests that growth in story knowledge is largely dependent on finding a fit among three elements: culturally influenced story schemas, children's developmental constraints, and instruction programs. The aim of this study was to examine an instruction program carried out with five 4-year-…
Conceptual Change in Narrative Knowledge: Psychological Understandings of Low-Literacy and Literate Adults
We examined low-literacy and literate adults' conceptual knowledge in two domains: narrative (composition and recall) and social cognition. Results indi-cated that the performance of the two groups was qualitatively different and that subjects in each group used a similar knowledge structure on both types of tasks. Specifically, the low-literacy group largely accounted for action se-quences by referring to the characters' context-specific intenti…
Reading dual language books: Improving early literacy skills in linguistically diverse classrooms
Research has determined that dual language books have a positive effect on literacy achievement, motivation, and family involvement in children’s schooling. In this study we used quantitative methods to complement the largely qualitative extant research. We analyzed the early literacy skills of 105 kindergarten children (45 comparison, 60 treatment) with diverse language backgrounds (35% English, 31% Punjabi, 16% Urdu, 18% other languages) from e…
Improving story complexity and cohesion: A developmental approach to teaching story composition
The aim of the present study was to analyze the relative effectiveness of two first grade instruction programs: a developmental program that focused on the structural and social-psychological components of stories and their cohesion and a process oriented approach. A total of 43 children participated in daily sessions over 3 months (experimental group N = 22, comparison group N = 21). Measures of conceptual language and oral narrative were obtain…
Developing narrative interpretation: Structural and content analyses
Background.Narrative thought is a primary mode of human cognition that underpins key human capabilities such as meaning-making and social-psychological understanding.Aims.We sought to further our understanding of the development of narrative thought during adolescence, particularly in terms of the structure and content of narrative interpretations.Sample.Participants were 151 grade 4 to grade 12 students from six schools in a major urban centre i…
Conceptual Change in Narrative Knowledge: Psychological Understandings of Low-Literacy and Literate Adults
We examined low-literacy and literate adults' conceptual knowledge in two domains: narrative (composition and recall) and social cognition. Results indi-cated that the performance of the two groups was qualitatively different and that subjects in each group used a similar knowledge structure on both types of tasks. Specifically, the low-literacy group largely accounted for action se-quences by referring to the characters' context-specific intenti…
Teaching Storytelling: A Microgenetic Analysis of Developing Narrative Competency
The development of competency in narrative composition is acknowledged to be a complex process of central importance in the educational enterprise. Recent work suggests that growth in story knowledge is largely dependent on finding a fit among three elements: culturally influenced story schemas, children's developmental constraints, and instruction programs. The aim of this study was to examine an instruction program carried out with five 4-year-…
A narrative analysis of behaviourally troubled adolescents' life stories
The purpose of this study was to explore street youths' life histories to assess how early negative experiences (e.g., maltreatment) contributed to alternative developmental paths marked by emotional and behavioural difficulties. Ten male and female participants responded to an attachment questionnaire and told their life stories. The data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that both groups experienced…
Improving story complexity and cohesion: A developmental approach to teaching story composition
The aim of the present study was to analyze the relative effectiveness of two first grade instruction programs: a developmental program that focused on the structural and social-psychological components of stories and their cohesion and a process oriented approach. A total of 43 children participated in daily sessions over 3 months (experimental group N = 22, comparison group N = 21). Measures of conceptual language and oral narrative were obtain…
Teaching Preschoolers About Inheritance
This study aimed to promote advanced reasoning about biological inheritance in four-and five-year-olds. A total of 78 preschoolers (Experimental n = 40; Comparison n = 38) completed pre-and post-test versions of two biological reasoning tasks. The Experimental condition received 15 lessons on biological inheritance, whereas the Comparison condition received regular story time activities. The results showed that the Experimental group outperformed…
What shapes narrative thought: Effects of story type and culture
The primary aims of the study were to investigate the narrative strategies used by Italian and Canadian youth on progressive (improving interactions) and regressive (degenerating interactions) stories and to investigate potential differences in story interpretation across the two countries. Two hundred and six participants, matched for age, gender and SES, were selected from fifth and seventh grade classrooms in Calgary, Canada, and Florence, Ita…
Developing narrative interpretation: Structural and content analyses
Background.Narrative thought is a primary mode of human cognition that underpins key human capabilities such as meaning-making and social-psychological understanding.Aims.We sought to further our understanding of the development of narrative thought during adolescence, particularly in terms of the structure and content of narrative interpretations.Sample.Participants were 151 grade 4 to grade 12 students from six schools in a major urban centre i…
Teaching Trickster Tales: A Comparison of Instructional Approaches
Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach, only the developmentally based method took into account students’ expected developmental growth pattern…
Gender differences in preschoolers’ understanding of the concept of life
This study investigated gender differences in North American preschoolers’ biological reasoning about the concept of ‘life’. Four-year-olds (M = 4.6, SD = 3.3 months) and five-year-olds (M = 5.6, SD = 3.8 months) were asked about the function of 13 body parts, organs, and bodily processes. Results indicated that the likelihood of mentioning the importance of body parts, organs, and bodily processes for maintaining life or preventing death was pre…
Stories of family, stories of self: Developmental pathways to interpretive thought during adolescence
Research has shown that a hallmark of adolescent development is the growing capacity to interpret human intentionality. In this chapter, the authors examine developmental change in this capacity, which they have termed interpretive thought, in two types of stories, family and autobiographical, told by Canadian youth aged ten to seventeen years. Illustrative examples reveal that youth coordinate an increasing number of psychological components and…
Reading dual language books: Improving early literacy skills in linguistically diverse classrooms
Research has determined that dual language books have a positive effect on literacy achievement, motivation, and family involvement in children’s schooling. In this study we used quantitative methods to complement the largely qualitative extant research. We analyzed the early literacy skills of 105 kindergarten children (45 comparison, 60 treatment) with diverse language backgrounds (35% English, 31% Punjabi, 16% Urdu, 18% other languages) from e…
Supporting Indigenous children’s oral storytelling using a culturally referenced, developmentally based program
Indigenous communities in Canada have struggled with systemic inequities that have affected education outcomes of their children. In collaboration with a Stoney Nakoda community in Western Canada, a university research team, composed of Indigenous and non-Indigenous members, offered an instruction program designed to use storytelling as a gateway to early literacy development. Indigenous researchers and collaborators guided program adaptation to …
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Narrative inquiry (4 works)