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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1944. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf [16]).

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1944. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42).

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This study focuses on Taiwanese nursery rhymes. In addition to lullabies and nursery rhymes, it also includes rhymes and songs chanted to pray for good fortune at birth rituals and those sung to teach and encourage children. Most of the rhymes and songs discussed here, including those pronounced in Taiwanese (the Hokkien language in Taiwan) and Hakka, are popular in Taiwan and passed down from generation to generation. Some nursery rhymes and songs in Mandarin and in other Taiwan aboriginal languages are also included to make necessary comparisons. First, this study analyzes the sentence arrangement, structure, rhythm, and presentation of these nursery rhymes in order to examine their structure characteristics. Based on their contents, then, they are classified into five categories: lullabies, colic care songs and rhymes, playtime songs and rhymes, prayer songs and rhymes, as well as value-teaching songs and rhymes. The five categories are examined and analyzed, and their cultural backgrounds explored. Finally, based on the structures, contents, and embedded cultures of these nursery rhymes, their values are discussed and presented. This research contains six chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction. It broadly introduces the content and the structure of this research. Chapter 2: A Structural Analysis of the Nursery Rhymes. This chapter focuses on the characteristics of these nursery rhymes: sentence arrangements, structures, rhythm, and presentation skills. Chapter 3: A Content Analysis of the Nursery Rhymes. Based on the content, each rhyme is classified and analyzed. Chapter 4: Cultures in the Nursery Rhymes. This chapter discusses some embedded cultural activities such as birth and marriage in nursery rhymes to explore the relationships between ethnic cultures and their individual rhymes. Chapter 5: Values of the Nursery Rhymes. The values of nursery rhymes are examined from the aspects of education, life, and ethnic cultures. Chapter 6: Conclusion. The significance and implications of this research as well as its future extended research are discussed in this chapter.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX95402.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of preschoolers' perceptions of parental attributes to the behaviors exhibited in nursery school. The study was designed to test the following hypotheses:I. Preschool children who perceive their parents as controlling and accepting exhibit positive socializing and independent behaviors in nursery school.II. Preschool children who perceive their parents as punitive and/or overindulgent exhibit negative socializing and dependent behaviors in nursery school.A pilot study, using a semi-structured doll play instrument constructed by the researcher, was conducted to determine significant scenes which would evoke necessary information for the categories of the research study. Twelve scenes were selected on the basis of highest scoring averages as the most reliable scenes. Instructions to the child and order of the scenes to coincide with normal home activity were established.Forty-two preschool children, ages four and five, were administered The Doll Play Technique to determine their perceptions of parental attributes. The attributes measured were categorized as 1) control, 2) acceptance, 3) punitiveness, and 4) overindulgence. The subjects were thirty-two males and ten females of normal intelligence. They were Caucasian, from nuclear type family structure, and represented lower middle class socio-economic status.The subjects were tested and observed in two east central Indiana nursery schools during the Fall of 1969. Twelve three-minute behavioral observations on each subject were gathered and coded into the following basic categories: a) positive socializing, b) independent behavior, c) negative behavior, and d) dependent behavior.The Pearson product-moment correlation statistic was used to test the hypotheses. The level of significance was determined by use of the t test. Inter correlations of the variables were determined along with multiple regression correlations indicating greater variable significance.Findings on the hypotheses indicated a significant relationship between preschoolers' perceptions of their parents as controlling and accepting and their exhibition of positive socializing and independent behaviors in nursery school. There was a probable relationship between preschoolers' perceptions of their parents as punitive and/or overindulgent and their exhibition of negative socializing and dependent behaviors in nursery school. Other findings indicated that: control and acceptance, which were posited as positively related, had an inverse relationshipcontrol and overindulgence, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshipacceptance and punitiveness, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshipoverindulgence and independent behavior, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshipacceptance and independent behavior, which were posited as positively related, had a positive relationshipacceptance and dependent behavior, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshippunitiveness and negative socializing, which were posited as positively related, had a positive relationshippositive socializing and dependent behavior, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshipindependent behavior and dependent behavior, which were posited diversely, had an inverse relationshipnegative socializing and dependent behavior, which were posited as positively related, had a positive relationship.Greater predictability of the dependent variables in the hypotheses occurred when the independent variables were considered in combination rather than separately.Beyond support for the hypotheses, the study indicated that preschool children's perceptions of parental attributes appear to be antecedent to socializing and independent behaviors in nursery school. The Doll Play Technique gave indication of effectively obtaining preschoolers' perceptions of parental attributes in the rearing process.

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