Reviews some of the major cognitive, social, and emotional achievements of young children and discusses some of their limitations. Divides description of development into intellectual, language, social, and emotional development. Notes that this division represents adult categories of thought and does not represent young children's actual modes of…

Just as infants and the elderly have special health care needs based on their stages in the life cycle, adolescents also have particular health needs. While some of those needs are simply a result of the bodily changes that define adolescence, others are true medical conditions which are most commonly found in this age group. Among achievements…

As a contribution toward understanding intellectual and moral growth in late adolescence in a pluralistic society, a developmental scheme representing an evolution in forms of thought and values was abstracted from students' reports of their experience. The raw data consisted of transcripts of recorded "open" interviews held with volunteer…

This 5-year longitudinal study focuses on the development of intelligence and emotional maturity in 317 premature and 78 full-term Romanian infants. (CM)

A role model is someone an individual looks up to and wants to be like--but also someone an individual connects with as a person. There is a special relationship between a child and a teacher, particularly in the early childhood years. Teachers must think carefully about how their manner affects the children in their classrooms. This article…

This report summarizes research evidence of the values in early childhood education with emphasis on nursery school education. Included are studies of the effects of nursery school and kindergarten on children's social, personal, emotional, and intellectual development, and later school achievement. Other reports focus on race awareness, dramatic…

There is a distinct difference between preventing a problem and promoting students' emotional and intellectual development. Today's schools, with their focus on standards and accountability, frequently use a risk-based problem-prevention approach in both policy and practice to address young people's drug use, delinquency, unsafe sex, violence, and…

This theoretical paper deals with a comparison of the structure and content of primary and secondary thought processes. While secondary processes (cognitive thinking) are effectively dealt with and taught in schools, there is little or no relating to the primary processes (affective thinking). This is due in part to teachers' own difficulties in…

Fifty-one children who had spent their first 2-7 years in institutions, and who had been visited previously at the age of 4 1/2 years, were reassessed at the age of 8. Seven children had never left the institutions, the rest had been adopted, fostered, or restored to their biological parent. (JB)

Article considered the Playgroup nursery and its philosophy of preschool education with an emphasis on emotional facilitation. (Editor/RK)

Lecture delivered at the November 2, 1968 meeting of the Association of Independent Maryland Schools.

Reviews research on intellectual, emotional, and social development of children in day care. (RH)

The Omnibus Personality Inventory was administered to a group of students as freshmen, seniors, and alumni (five years after graduation). Respondents exhibited freshman-to-senior personality changes usually associated with college attendance. The orientation to intellectualism and the social-emotional maturation persisted in the years immediately…

Teachers and longitudinal researchers have observed that the long-term benefits of participating in a quality early childhood program are more social than academic. Early childhood is a unique stage of life, not an opportunity for intervention and remediation. Kindergarten and first-grade environments should be flexible, activity-oriented, and…

Based on the premise that the brain is a highly plastic, constantly changing entity that is powerfully shaped by experiences in childhood and throughout life, this book presents information on enriching childhood brain development. Each stage of childhood development is profiled, with the changes in the brain described and their implications for…