Chinese Preschoolers’ Conflict Negotiation in Resource Limited Situations

Marina Sonntag*, Shuangshuang Xu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on different types of preschoolers’ peer conflicts and children’s choice of conflict solving strategies in the local Chinese kindergarten. The aim is to understand the new challenges and opportunities brought about by the new Chinese social reality of reformation and opening up and the one child policy upon the original popular division of “independent and interdependent culture” between West and East. Field observations and projective tests with hypothetical situations are employed to have a close look at children’s skills of conflict negotiation. From analysis, it can be seen that conflicting situations concerning access of resources are a dynamic negotiating process on ownership and possession.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCultural Psychology of Education
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages61-73
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameCultural Psychology of Education
Volume12
ISSN (Print)2364-6780
ISSN (Electronic)2364-6799

Keywords

  • Access of resources
  • Conflict negotiation
  • Interdependent
  • Peer conflict

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