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Bondi, Joseph C.; Tocco, Thomas S. – 1974
Transescence is marked not only by disrupting acceleration in physical development and physiological change, but also by emotional and social pressures resulting from the transfer of authority from the family to the peer group. At no time in the schooling of our children do we find greater differences in the physical, social, emotional, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Emotional Development, Intellectual Development
Collinson, Vivienne; Hoffman, Lynn M. – 1998
This study of high school students argues that American high school classes continue to be unsuccessful and boring to students because they artificially separate intellectual achievement and social development of adolescents. To understand how students view their high school priorities and the role of their experiences in the transition from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Friendship, High School Students
Grunst, Robert C. – 1991
By assigning negative value to egocentric language, Jean Piaget equates depersonalized thought and logic with maturity, and gives disproportionate favor to socialized language. By focusing on the deterministic ends to be gained through the acquisition of socialized language, Piaget misses the value of egocentric language. Maurice Merleau-Ponty,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Egocentrism, Higher Education
Guddemi, Marcy – 1992
Several factors are eroding children's right to play. The first is continuing poverty throughout the world. This factor is evident in underdeveloped countries and the inner cities of industrialized countries. Changing cultural values are a second factor in developed societies where indifference toward the importance of play is prevalent. The many…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Labor, Childhood Needs, Childrens Rights
Jennings, Kay D. – 1974
In this study, preferences for activities with people vs. objects were examined in preschool children and related to two kinds of intellectual abilities. Children with high object orientation were expected to be relatively advanced in organizing and classifying physical objects. In contrast, children with high people orientation were expected to…
Descriptors: Activities, Cognitive Ability, Early Experience, Intellectual Development
Yawkey, Thomas Daniels; Blohm, Paul J. – 1977
This paper reviews theoretical writings on the importance and function of imaginative play in the development of young children, and describes measurement instruments and instructional aids used for imaginative play in home and school settings. A historical summary of the function of play in the young child's life is presented. Early theories saw…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education
Turekian, Roxanne, Ed.; Workman, Gwendolyn, Ed. – 1974
This volume contains a series of seminars on parenting presented by the North Haven Right to Read Advisory Council. The major theme of the seminars is the role of the parent in stimulating the child's total development: emotional, social, and intellectual. Specific topics examined are: (1) the young child's view of himself: his basis for learning,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Discipline, Early Childhood Education
Katz, Lilian G. – 1999
This paper discusses current perspectives on the education of young children in terms of five interrelated issues rooted in a developmental perspective: (1) the complexities of predicting the long-term developmental outcomes of early experience; (2) how to interpret gender differences in the long-term effects of different approaches to early years…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Style, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Goodstein, H. A.; And Others – 1975
This report briefly summarizes the educational progress of a sample of children who took part in one of the earliest Head Start programs (1966). The report addresses the following questions: (1) Was participation in Head Start a factor in preventing retention in grade and/or special class placement? (2) Were there differences between Head Start…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
McCormack, Patricia M. – 1997
Education may promote the development of students' whole-person identity formation--the spiritual, psychological, social, emotional, and intellectual. This paper considers how identify formation and self-esteem are related, how parents form the foundation for identity, and how teachers can contribute to further growth. Erikson's theory of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Emotional Development
Kornfeld, Maurine – 1974
The Los Angeles Section, National Council of Jewish Women, has developed an innovative pilot program in day care geared to the changing life style of child rearing by single parents. Home-SAFE provides children a warm, secure environment in supervised, subsidized, licensed day care homes, and includes enrichment activities by trained volunteers;…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Rearing, Day Care, Emotional Development
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1978
This study focuses on the effects of family size and spacing on intellectual, social, and personality development of children. The sample consisted of 533 suburban, middle class, large family (five or more) and small two child family children. The children, 233 boys and 300 girls, were teenagers attending either junior or senior high school.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order