This booklet presents (in both English and French) four papers delivered at a seminar on day care in Ottawa, Canada in 1969: (1) "The Family in Contemporary Society and Emerging Family Patterns," (2) "The Effects of Early Childhood Experience" (on social and cognitive development), (3) "An Overview of Canadian Day Care…

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…

Presented are the proceedings of the 1974 Special Study Institute for Teachers of Deaf-Blind Multihandicapped Children designed to give teachers an overview of current activities in the southwestern region of the United States. Presentations are divided into four sections--planning, services to parents and professionals, services to deaf-blind…

A diversity of themes are addressed in the papers presented in this document; they include new topic areas as well as concerns that have been cited in previous issues. The papers focus on such topics as: (1) problem solving; (2) cognition; (3) the learning environment; (4) energy education; (5) the use of diagrams; (6) scientific methodology; (7)…

The third Fenno-Hungarian Conference on Developmental Psychology covered four main concepts: the historical roots and development of social competence through three generations, parent-child interaction, parenthood, and the development of socio-cognitive competence through childhood and adolescence. A series of papers was presented addressing the…