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Garlick, Steve – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
While it is accepted that there are "sensitive" and "critical" periods of life during which certain human capabilities are more readily acquired, and where the multiplied returns on our investment in human capability building are more significant, it is also argued that there are place-based contexts (society, nature, culture,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Human Capital, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Developmental Tasks
Woolner, Rosestelle B., Ed. – 1987
Speakers at the Lipman Research Institute's inaugural symposium examined research and issues related to appropriate programs for 4-year-olds. David Weikart described the Perry Preschool Project, an ongoing study begun in 1962 of 123 black youths at risk of failing, and the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Study. Jane Stallings covered short-term…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Conferences