This paper presents a survey of consumer needs for various types of parent education curriculum materials. The paper suggests that needs assessment should be an important part of any curriculum development process. The survey addressed four questions: (1) current sources of information about children, (2) desirable content for new materials, (3)…

A discussion of impulse control among children in the primary grades based on many years of practice at the Yale University Child Study Center Nursery School, four inner city pre-kindergarten programs, and several inner city primary schools; the analysis of a number of impulse ridden children; and, several research projects on impulsivity in…

The author, a member of the Forum Editorial Board, discussed her educational experiences at the International School in Geneva where she has been teaching for the past two years. (Editor/RK)

Article provided us with a cross-national picture of the inequality between men and women in the hours they work and explained that until husbands shared in the care of their children, women will continue to be blocked from equal opportunity in the work world. (Editor/RK)

This study tested the hypothesis that certain specific relationships would be discovered between the instructional activity of mothers and the efficacy of their children's subsequent task ability. (Author/RK)

A selected bibliography of research studies and books related to mathematics and early childhood education. Studies cited pertain to the development of mathematical thought in children, teaching strategies, age-appropriate mathematical content, and assessment and evaluation of mathematical learning. Only materials published in the last five years…

The major works of the child/developmental psychologist and educator Wayne Dennis are listed in this annotated bibliography. (One-hundred-twenty-one citations are included.) For ease of use, the bibliography has been subdivided into the major headings of aging (7 citations); animistic thinking (9 citations); cross-cultural studies (8 citations);…

Video-analysis was used to investigate the transition from coacting to alternating patterns of infant-mother vocalizations in this longitudinal study of one infant. In addition to investigating the transition and its developmental implications, the relationship between the temporal patterning of kinesic and vocal behaviors was studied. The study…

This paper presents a model for examining the cognitive nature of artistic development in children. The model uses Witkin's differentiation theory as a basic construct with which to integrate theories of art criticism/aesthetics (particularly, E.B. Feldman's theory), developmental psychology (Jean Piaget), and linguistics. Witkin's Differentiation…

Comprehension of metaphor was examined in 36 children ranging in age from 55 months to 186 months. The subjects were audiotaped while answering questions about a target sentence that was contextually anomalous. Five pictures were drawn to accompany each story, two relating to the literal meaning of the target sentence, two to the metaphoric…