critique of a journal article

Howes, Hamilton, & Matheson (1994) hypothesised that good child-teacher interactions would be positively correlated with good child-peer interactions. They drew from John Bulby’s attachment theory and from recent studies of teacher-child relationships. While Bulby primarily focuses upon how the parent-child relationship affects the forming of later relationships, recent studies observe the influence of the teacher-child relationship. The article’s introduction discusses the inspiration for the researchers’ studies; however, theoretical explanations for their work are vague. The …

…the article, the researchers seem detached from their subjects. They do not bring out any of the specifics from the experiment, for instance, how the children fared in the strange situation environment. In addition, the discussion section does not discuss what the introduction to the paper says it will. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Howes, Carollee, & Hamilton, Claire E. & Matheson, Catherine C. (1994). Children’s Relationships with Peers: Differential Associations with Aspects of the Teacher-Child Relationship. Child Development, 65, 253 - 263.