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Transgenerational Influences on the Development of Early Prodigious Behavior: A Case Study Approach.

Feldman, David Henry; Goldsmith, Lynn T. – New Directions for Child Development, 1986
Explores possible influences on children's early development that originate with parents, grandparents, and even more distant family relations. Explains how these transgenerational influences may provide deliberately articulated strategies for child-rearing or may represent unstated, background values that have unconsciously been incorporated into…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education

Sigel, Irving E. – New Directions for Child Development, 1986
Proposes the use of a distancing strategy model as an approach to studying the social genesis of representational competence in children. Explains how the model describes teaching strategies that make cognitive demands on children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development

Hunt, J. McVicker – New Directions for Child Development, 1986
Suggests that variations in the quality and type of infant care, in institutional and other settings in different cultures and social classes, can have influences on the long-term development of the child's rate, level, and type of cognitive development. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences