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United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. – 1983
Expanding on information provided in a softcover report of the same title, this hardcover edition contains additional chapters and presents a more complete picture of the revolution in child survival that UNICEF now believes to be possible. Part I, the annual message from the executive director of UNICEF, summarizes worldwide reaction to…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Developing Nations, Family Planning
Download full textMullen, Franklin; Chaffee, John – 1983
Organized in three parts, the nine brief chapters of this report aim to raise the information levels of policy makers and the public concerning several educational issues. After the first chapter's brief introductory indication of the purpose of the publication, chapter 2 provides an overview of changes that have marked the American scene since…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Style, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Davies, John – 1996
The extensive media use common today among children and adolescents requires no special literacy skills. Television, video, film, and popular music can also be viewed or listened to without acquiring new skills. Without purposefully teaching the skills to decode the meanings behind the media, however, we leave students, as well as ourselves, in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Sugar, Max, Ed. – 1993
This book emphasizes female adolescents' healthy development within a psychoanalytic frame of reference for what is normative, that also indicates the boundaries of and transitions to what is deviant. The book's 12 articles relate to 3 general topics. The two articles in part 1 of the book, which addresses biological issues, are "Female…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Body Image, Cognitive Development
Manning, M. Lee – 2002
Noting factors that have contributed to an increased emphasis on developmentally responsive middle level schools, this revised monograph examines early adolescence as a developmental period and explores the physical, psychosocial, and cognitive characteristics of 10- to 15-year-olds. In addition, the monograph provides recommendations concerning…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Check Lists, Cognitive Development
Werner, Emmy Elisabeth – 1979
This book represents a synthesis of current knowledge about the physical, cognitive and social development of young children who live in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin-America, and Oceania. The book develops five major themes: (1) It views child development in a comparative fashion, examining universal sequences in development as…
Descriptors: Books, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
