ABSTRACT
Although the purpose of this article is simply to describe certain kinds of activities in a kindergarten classroom, it suggests the useful practical information that can emerge from sociological research. Teachers, for example, might find it very useful-though not necessarily pleasant-to have such a study done of their own classrooms, for in this way they might be able to identify many of the taken-for-granted assumptions that underlie their behavior and see their activities in the stark terms in which research presents them. Some behavior might be reconsidered, other kinds discontinued, yet other kinds reaffirmed; results of such a study would provide a particularly fruitful basis for making such choices.
