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Bentley, William G. – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Suggests a set of activities that foster physical and intellectual growth through thought-provoking situations which require no special equipment and can take place indoors or out. (MP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedBurns, Sylvia F. – Young Children, 1975
Discusses the ways in which teachers can use art activities to provide a variety of learning experiences which encourage both creative expression and intellectual development. Lists basic art media and their inherent learning possibilities. (ED)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Materials, Classroom Environment, Creative Development
Peer reviewedJuan, Stephen – Childhood Education, 1985
Describes the daily program of a highly successful Japanese preschool based on the Suzuki educational philosophy which emphasizes repetition and structure in teaching. Explores possibility of using program in other educational settings, particularly in the West, because of high cognitive gains by children. (DST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Download full textBell, Terrel H.; Hertzler, Elam K. – 1992
This book for parents and child care providers describes a program for home-based, early childhood education that does not use formal, disciplined instruction. The program uses the technique of "incidental teaching," which emphasizes learning activities that occur while children participate in typical daily activities, such as eating,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Educational Games
Anselmo, Sandra; Petersen, Jane Dunlap – 1978
This manual designed for caregivers describes the practices and activity plans of the infant-toddler group at the University of Iowa Early Childhood Education Center. Emphasis is placed on working with children between 12 and 36 months of age. The manual is divided into five main sections. Section 1 explains the composition of the infant-toddler…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Guides
Peer reviewedDunnett, Jenefer – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1999
Describes the use of activity boxes with 43 young children with blindness, deaf-blindness, or severe learning disabilities and visual impairments. Discusses the contribution such boxes make to intellectual development, particularly the development of voluntary hand function from the integration of the primitive grasp-and-release instincts shown by…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Infants
Carew, Jean V. – 1975
The present study states as its purpose the delineation of everyday transactions with the environment of a group of children observed longitudinally in their own homes and neighborhoods from age one to three. This research is considered to have been designed to answer: (1) what types of experiences are intellectually valuable to the young child;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Human Development
Learning Inst. of North Carolina, Durham. – 1971
The second year of a state supported early childhood education program was evaluated, using a pre-post evaluation design involving experimental and control groups. An Early Childhood Assessment Battery was administered to 720 five-year-olds enrolled in the kindergarten program by their teachers. The control group (178) were tested locally. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
