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Doxiadis, Spyros, Ed. – 1979
This book is the product of an international symposium on the child in the world of tomorrow which took place in Athens the first week of July 1978. Contributors come from more than 10 scientific disciplines, among them pediatricians, architects and town planners, sociologists, economists, teachers, and politicans. Participants came from all five…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Children, Cognitive Development
Conseil du Quebec de l'Enfance Exceptionnelle, Montreal. – 1980
The proceedings of a conference centered on the influences of urban life on child development, sponsored by the World Union for the Safeguard of Youth and the Conseil du Quebec de l'Enfance Exceptionnelle in 1979, are presented in this report. Three general themes were addressed at the conference: (1) the child in the family within the city, (2)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
German Foundation for International Development, Bonn (West Germany). – 1980
A workshop on "Curriculum for Early Childhood Education," held in the summer of 1979 at the Kenya Institute of Education, aimed to familiarize participants with the problems facing early childhood education in Africa. Specific workshop objectives were (1) to familiarize participants with the psychological, social, political, and economic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Computation, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
This workshop was convened by the Office of Child Development (OCD) to identify research issues and to set priorities for research related to bilingual/bicultural early childhood development programs proposed by OCD. Workshop participants were researchers and persons with expertise in the development of bilingual/bicultural preschool programs. The…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Child Development
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1978
The conference provided a forum where educators, members of public service organizations, members of the citizen education component of Research for Better Schools (RBS), representatives from industry and community groups, and representatives of the New Jersey Citizen Education Planning Committee could explore citizenship education in light of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Citizen Participation, Citizenship
Hayes, Cheryl D., Ed. – 1980
These proceedings contain summaries of five working group discussions and a discussion of suggestions for future research from an ad hoc meeting on Work, Family, and Community (Fedruary 21-22, 1980) in Washington, D.C. The meeting had these objectives: (1) to identify salient policy and research issues associated with changing patterns of labor…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Services, Demography, Employed Parents