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Wilson, Ruth – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Now in its second edition, "Nature and Young Children" promotes the holistic development of children by connecting them with nature. It offers advice and guidance on how to set up indoor and outdoor nature play spaces as well as encouraging environmentally responsible attitudes, values and behaviour in your early childhood setting. Covering topics…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Special Needs Students, Play, Young Children
Benveniste, Jodie – Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood, 2013
This guide was created because parents revealed, through extensive social research, that they often received inconsistent and confusing parenting information from different professionals and practitioners across different disciplines, leading to misunderstandings and a lack of confidence about how best to support their children's development. In…
Descriptors: Perinatal Influences, Prenatal Influences, Children, Values
Kuhmerker, Lisa – Moral Education Forum, 1994
Describes the development and content of teacher guides from The Giraffe Project, a social values and community service program. States that the teacher guides are available for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12. Maintains that the materials would be appropriate for schools integrating a service component into the curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Community Action
Leming, James S. – 1988
The basic paradox of citizenship education in the United States is that the first steps toward the rational, autonomous, critical-minded citizen required by a democracy are necessarily non-rational and based on an unquestioned deference to authority. The movement from the morality of authority to the morality of principle constitutes the challenge…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
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Putman, Daniel – Journal of Moral Education, 1995
Contends that the concept of levels of moral maturity in psychology focuses on character formation in children's development. Asserts that virtue theory in ethics can be helpful in pointing out the ethical implications of current work with children. Argues for the usefulness of ancient ethical concepts. (CFR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
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Vreeke, G. J. – Journal of Moral Education, 1991
Discusses Gilligan's explanation of the distinction between justice and care. Describes how she contrasts the two notions and explores the possibility of encompassing care within Piagetian developmental theory. Reviews Gilligan's position on justice and care as different forms of moral judgment. Examines different interpretations of universality…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Ethics, Higher Education
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Ross, Jerrold – Arts Education Policy Review, 1994
Asserts that the National Standards for Arts Education ignore the values that shape, define, and illuminate democracy. Calls for attention to child development, school environment, and teaching strategies to supplement the work already done on curriculum standards. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Education, Child Development
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Schaps, Eric; Watson, Marilyn; Lewis, Catherine – Social Studies Review, 1997
Reports on the work of the Child Development Project. The project outlined a series of approaches and characteristics shared by successful character development school programs. These include creating a caring community, a social constructivist approach to staff development, use of cooperative learning strategies, autonomy, belonging, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Study Centers, Educational Development
Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza, Ed. – InTech, 2011
The aim of the book is to serve for clinical, practical, basic and scholarly practices. In twentyfive chapters it covers the most important topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in the efficient way and aims to be useful for health professionals in training or clinicians seeking an update. Different people with autism can have very different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk, Cultural Differences, Quality of Life
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1994
This document contains a project report and a parenting resource book of materials for use in family and other adult basic and literacy education programs. The project report details how focus groups were conducted to determine the interests of adults in family literacy classes. Ten categories of interest were identified and materials were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
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Foster, Wayne K. – Education, 1984
Examines benefits to individuals and society of cooperative--as opposed to competitive--interpersonal relationships. Discusses children's sports, games, and play as means to promote cooperation and reviews research showing positive effects of children's cooperative play. Provides standards for a cooperative philosophy that would promote positive…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Development, Children, Childrens Games
Michaelis, Bill – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1979
Adventure playgrounds provide children with an area free from the imposition of adult values and social competition--a crucial necessity in a healthful maturation process. (LH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Creativity, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs
Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr. – American School Board Journal, 1992
Video games are neither neutral nor harmless but represent very specific social and symbolic constructs. Research on the social content of today's video games reveals that sex bias and gender stereotyping are widely evident throughout the Nintendo games. Violence and aggression also pervade the great majority of the games. (MLF)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Interests, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education
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Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis – Journal of Moral Education, 1991
Discusses the relationship between Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive-stage theory as a further development of Piaget's moral theory. Argues Kohlberg describes moral thought and not the formation of the independent moral function. Finds Kohlberg's major interest is in the characteristics of stages of individual moral reasoning and the principle of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Ethics
Ash, Anthony; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1993
Reports on a study of 198 Canadian children, ages 4-8, on their understanding of the role of evidence on the formation of beliefs. Finds that younger children evaluate opinions based on their own beliefs about the situation; older children tend to ascribe knowledge to others on the basis of evidence available to those others. (CFR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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