Children's understanding of death : toward a contextualized and integrated account / edited by Karl S. Rosengren, Peggy J. Miller, Isabel T. Gutierrez, Philip I. Chow, Stevie S. Schein, Kathy N. Anderson ; with commentary by Maureen A. Callanan ; Patricia J. Bauer, series editor.

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Peggy J. Miller, Karl S. Rosengren, and Isabel T. Gutierrez -- 2. European Americans in Centerville : community and family contexts Peggy J. Miller, Isabel T. Gutierrez, Philip I. Chow, and Stevie S. Schein -- 3. Affective dimensions of death : children's books, questions, and understandings Isabel T. Gutierrez, Peggy J. Miller, Karl S. Rosengren, and Stevie S. Schein -- 4. Cognitive dimensions of death in context Karl S. Rosengren, Isabel T. Gutierrez, and Stevie S. Schein -- 5. Cognitive models of death Karl S. Rosengren, Isabel T. Gutierrez, and Stevie S. Schein -- 6. Mexican American immigrants in the Centerville region : teachers, children, and parents Isabel T. Gutierrez, Karl S. Rosengren, and Peggy J. Miller -- 7. Final thoughts Peggy J. Miller and Karl S. Rosengren.
Subject: This monograph provides an account of young children's socialization with respect to death and develops a conception of children's understanding of death that encompasses affective and cognitive dimensions. Conducted in a small city in the Midwest, the project involved several component studies employing quantitative and qualitative methods. Middle-class, European American children were interviewed about their cognitive/affective understandings of death; their parents completed questionnaires about the children's experiences and their own beliefs and practices. Other data included ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and analysis of children's books. Parents and teachers shared a dominant folk theory, believing that children should be shielded from death because they lack the emotional and cognitive capacity to understand or cope with death. Even the youngest children knew basic elements of the emotional script for death, a script that paralleled messages available across socializing contexts. Similarly, they showed considerable understanding of the sub-concepts of death, providing additional evidence that young children's cognitive understanding is more advanced than previously thought, and contradicting the dominant folk theory held by most parents. Although children's default model of death was biological, many children and parents used coexistence models, mixing scientific and religious elements. A preliminary study of Mexican American families cast the foregoing findings in relief, illustrating a different set of socializing beliefs and practices. Mexican American children's understanding of death differed from their European American counterparts' in ways that mirrored these differences.
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1. Introduction Peggy J. Miller, Karl S. Rosengren, and Isabel T. Gutierrez -- 2. European Americans in Centerville : community and family contexts Peggy J. Miller, Isabel T. Gutierrez, Philip I. Chow, and Stevie S. Schein -- 3. Affective dimensions of death : children's books, questions, and understandings Isabel T. Gutierrez, Peggy J. Miller, Karl S. Rosengren, and Stevie S. Schein -- 4. Cognitive dimensions of death in context Karl S. Rosengren, Isabel T. Gutierrez, and Stevie S. Schein -- 5. Cognitive models of death Karl S. Rosengren, Isabel T. Gutierrez, and Stevie S. Schein -- 6. Mexican American immigrants in the Centerville region : teachers, children, and parents Isabel T. Gutierrez, Karl S. Rosengren, and Peggy J. Miller -- 7. Final thoughts Peggy J. Miller and Karl S. Rosengren.

This monograph provides an account of young children's socialization with respect to death and develops a conception of children's understanding of death that encompasses affective and cognitive dimensions. Conducted in a small city in the Midwest, the project involved several component studies employing quantitative and qualitative methods. Middle-class, European American children were interviewed about their cognitive/affective understandings of death; their parents completed questionnaires about the children's experiences and their own beliefs and practices. Other data included ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and analysis of children's books. Parents and teachers shared a dominant folk theory, believing that children should be shielded from death because they lack the emotional and cognitive capacity to understand or cope with death. Even the youngest children knew basic elements of the emotional script for death, a script that paralleled messages available across socializing contexts. Similarly, they showed considerable understanding of the sub-concepts of death, providing additional evidence that young children's cognitive understanding is more advanced than previously thought, and contradicting the dominant folk theory held by most parents. Although children's default model of death was biological, many children and parents used coexistence models, mixing scientific and religious elements. A preliminary study of Mexican American families cast the foregoing findings in relief, illustrating a different set of socializing beliefs and practices. Mexican American children's understanding of death differed from their European American counterparts' in ways that mirrored these differences.

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