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Brennan, Andrew J. J. – 1983
Health professionals and educators should develop their abilities to educate about death and to comfort the bereaved. Due to lower death rates, the lack of philosophical religious views, and distorted perceptions of death contributed by television, death has become a mystery instead of a segment of the common experience. Particularly when a child…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bereavement, Children, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedStanley, William B.; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1987
Investigates the nature of social concept development in young children. A heterogeneous sample of 64 kindergarten and 65 first grade public school students completed an assessment task for both basic concepts and social concepts. Grades, sex, and racial group had significant impact on performance. Important differences in difficulty among social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 1
Gaffney, Maureen, Ed. – Young Viewers Magazine, 1983
Three articles offer parents suggestions on how to make television a positive experience for their children. An editorial introduces the following themes basic to all the articles: type and amount of television viewing should be regulated by parents, parents should discuss television with their children, and parents must become aware of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Concept Formation
Download full textSchoon, Kenneth J. – 1989
Misconceptions interfere with the formation of new insights and provide a faulty foundation. This causes difficulty in the learning of new materials. Therefore, effective teachers strive to know which misconceptions students have, and then develop a plan by which these suspected misconceptions can be corrected or averted. This paper reports on an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation, Earth Science
