Presents a set of guidelines for selecting hardware to promote students' sensory, cognitive, emotional, and social development. (MP)

Calls for anthropologists to pay more attention to the process by which individuals learn about or "acquire" culture. Suggests study of first language acquisition offers a useful model for studying ways people learn cultural and social behaviors. (Author/GC)

Reviews continuities and discontinuities in the field of developmental psychology between 1970 and the early 1980s, limiting discussion to areas of cognition and learning. Three major theoretical trends are identified: Piagetian, behavioristic, and information-processing. The field is perceived as fragmented, and it is expected that such…

Specifies major law-related outcomes at the elementary school level and describes several characteristics of learning environments that promote these outcomes. Outcomes include perceiving dilemmas inherent in social issues and being reflective decision makers, being critically responsive to authority, and being knowledgeable about law and related…

Focusing techniques are procedures for capturing and holding the attention of the learners. A number of ideas are presented for focusing techniques for lecture, discussion, and demonstration. (MP)

Skill theory attempts to provide tools for the prediction of developmental sequences in any domain at any point in development. The theory suggests a common framework for integrating developmental analyses of cognitive, social, perceptual/motor skills, and behavioral changes in learning and problem solving. (Author/GK)

A distinction in the educational process is made between that which is taught and learned, and the learning event itself. The ultimate result is seen as an appreciation and awareness of one'e existence in reality and a heightened sense of the humanly enhancing experience of thinking. (MLW)

Humanistic education is a systematic, conscious attempt to put into practice the best we know about the nature of human beings and how they learn. Humanistic education maintains that what students experience about themselves and their world is far too important for education to overlook. (Author/IRT)

Confucius' thoughts on humanism were analyzed and organized around two general themes: self-culture (self-cultivation, critical self-analysis, and how to become a virtuous person) and humanity (humaneness, learning, rules of propriety, and human brotherhood). These thoughts are designed to serve as guideposts for educators and curriculum…

Recounts various answers offered to the question of why the study of history is or is not a valid undertaking, offers reasons why historians must make their research more useful, and suggests that learning will come to an end when historians no longer believe in their own worth and no longer strive for high professional standards. (DB)

Suggests that differential rearing conditions may cause significant reversals in sex-related ability and behavior (maze learning and exploration), and may significantly affect perceptual sensitivity. (RL)

Describes modifications made in the original Learning Environment Inventory to enhance suitability for use in the elementary school and reports validation data from administration of the modified version to a sample of elementary school children. (Author/MP)

Describes an aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) hypothesis used to investigate relationships among aptitudes and science instructional treatments in terms of student performance. It is proposed that ATI research work in science education will systematically yield reliable generalizations about how to adapt instruction to individuals with…

A total of 72 children aged 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 were studied in a test of three hypotheses: younger children will use cues adaptively in a simple but not a complex situation; older children will act adaptively in both situations; the rate of change accelerates from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 years old. (MS)

The present experiment was designed to seek further evidence concerning the possible role of retroactive interference in situations whereby students learn information made available in prose form. (Author)