Children's readers : a cross-cultural selection. 1961.

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McClelland, David C. (David Clarence). Children's readers : a cross-cultural selection.

Children's readers : a cross-cultural selection. 1961.

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These children's readers from across the world were collected in the early 1960s when the researcher was working on a larger study which resulted in the book T̲he Achieving Society,̲ an investigation of the relationship between need for achievement and entrepreneurial behavior among businessmen of several cultures. The readers were included in order to examine how the concepts of achievement, affiliation, and power are transmitted through socialization to the members of a culture. Stories were collected from two time periods: the late 1920s and 1946-1950. Twenty-five countries were represented in the collection of stories from the 1920s (Group I) and 45 countries in the 1946-1950 collection (Group II). Twenty-one stories from each country were selected, each time. The United States was included in each collection. In the translations of the stories into English, all children's names, place names, national leaders, etc. were standardized for scoring purposes so that countries would not be identifiable. For example, all girls were called Mary and Jane, and all towns were called Big Town and Little Town. An additional sample of American data from 1790 to 1960 which included readers, hymns, and fiction was also collected. The original untranslated readers are available through the archive of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Murray Center has copies of the translated stories, organized by country, and coding information to identify the origin and date of each story. The stories were scored for need for achievement, affiliation, and power. These scores are available as well as the American readers, hymns, and fiction.

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