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Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Porter, Jill, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning" focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education--learners and teachers. Within this volume, internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Brain, Social Environment, Educational Policy
Bybee, Jane, Ed. – 1998
This book comprises articles exploring the origins and development of guilt and its relationship to adaptive behavior and mental illness in children. The articles are grouped in four sections, covering the nature of guilt; how guilt develops; inducing, instilling, and alleviating guilt; and guilt and adjustment. The articles are: (1) "How Does…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development
Hala, Suzanne, Ed. – 1997
Defining social cognition as our attempts to make sense of how people think, perceive, infer, feel, and react, this book examines both the classical issues and contemporary understanding of theory and research in social cognitive development. The initial chapters highlight one of the central, theoretical tensions in the field, which is whether the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development
Mitchell, Anne; Gage, Diane – Good Housekeeping, 1992
This special issue on child care presents articles on children's health, day care, grandparents, father-child relationships, pregnancy after age 40, children's dental care, children's moral development, parties for children, children's fighting, fashions in children's clothes, sibling relationships, and health care programs for children. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Child Health, Child Rearing
International Year of the Child, Canberra (Australia). National Committee of Non-Government Organisations. – 1981
The Developing Child Sub-Committee of the Australian International Year of the Child Committee of Non-Government Organizations prepared papers on the main problems facing children from birth to 12 years of age. Topics designated for attention were (1) the parenting role, including the influence of parents on children, factors influencing parental…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Childrens Rights, Corporal Punishment
Singer, Dorothy G., Ed.; Singer, Jerome L., Ed. – 2001
This handbook analyzes effects on children of traditional media, such as television, film, and advertising; and new media, such as the Internet and video games. The chapters are: (1) "The History of Children's Use of Electronic Media" (Paik); (2) "Free Reading: Implications for Child Development" (Desmond); (3) "The Use of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Cable Television, Censorship