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File, Nancy – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: This essay offers a review of challenges that university laboratory preschools face in providing a site for research that fits with other components of the program mission. An argument is made to consider paradigm shifts in research questions and methods that move away from traditions within the fields that study children's…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Administration, Research Problems, Research Opportunities
Clay, Marie M. – 1979
The state of the art of research on child development in New Zealand is reported in this paper. It is noted that while many courses in child development are taught in New Zealand, few incentives or resources for a viable and continuous child development research program are provided. Perhaps because of restricted opportunities for research and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foreign Countries, Research Design, Research Needs
Morrow, James – Television & Children, 1982
Challenges television research which presents an overly critical view of the effects of television viewing on its audience. (JJD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Commercial Television, Research Needs, Research Problems
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Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2002
Argues that Tomasello's (2000) interpretation of young children's conservatism in language production depends on questionable premises. Reviews evidence against the assumptions, showing that children learn item-specific facts about verbs and other lexical items. Asserts that researchers must explore the interactions of lexical and more abstract…
Descriptors: Child Development, Knowledge Level, Language Acquisition, Research Needs
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Harre, Rom, Ed. – Oxford Review of Education, 1984
Research results reported in this special issue show that egocentricity and staging, both central ideas in the Piaget-Kohlberg account of human development, are myths. The appearance of egocentricity and staging can be accounted for by a subtle combination of ethnocentricity and the effects of inappropriate methodologies. (RM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
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Kazdin, Alan E. – American Psychologist, 1989
Reviews recent research in the developmental psychopathology of children, the study of clinical dysfunction in the context of maturational and developmental processes. Many advances have relied heavily on the extension of paradigms developed in research with adults; offers directions for further research. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Children, Developmental Psychology
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Goldstein, Howard – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2000
This commentary discusses the wide acceptance of and the expenditure of limited resources on unproven behavioral therapies for individuals with autism. Considerations that need to be reviewed before adopting a behavioral treatment are outlined, including the need to establish whether direct effects can be attributed to a treatment. (Contains 11…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Child Development, Children
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Scott, Phyllis M. – Young Children, 1970
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Development, Definitions, Early Childhood Education
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McLoyd, Vonnie C. – Child Development, 1990
Briefly describes types of studies included in this special issue on minority children. Discusses issues in research on minority children and ways in which this research can be encouraged. (PCB)
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Child Development
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Cary, Charles D. – Youth and Society, 1974
A brief review of the subject matter of Soviet investigations of upbringing which points out some of the problems encountered by Soviet research on upbrining and suggests potential areas for improvement. (EH)
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Rearing, Educational Research
Shantz, Carolyn Uhlinger – 1984
Social and cognitive theories indicate that conflict plays an important role in an individual's psychological development. Research findings bearing on this conundrum provide initial hints about what social conflict in children is like and how it relates to characteristics of the child, but the short and long term positive and negative effects of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Development, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
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Crouter, Ann C. – Children Today, 1982
Discusses the findings of studies of how parents' work experiences affect children, pointing out methodological problems as well as areas for further research and emphasizing the need for a shift from studies of parents' work status per se to investigations of coping strategies in a time of dual-earner families. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Family Life
Sparling, Joseph J.; Gallagher, James J. – 1974
This booklet is based on a series of 1971 conferences attended by 22 prominent individuals in the field of child development research. Conference participants met in three working panels (on infancy, the preschool child, and the school age child) to assess the current status of the child development research field and to project research needs for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Human Development
Caldwell, Bettye M. – 1968
The concept of deprivation has become very appealing to specialists of many disciplines as an explanation for deviations in human development. This is understandable, since the phenomenon does seem to be a key factor in development, but several technical and methodological considerations hinder immediate efforts at understanding and alleviating…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Anderson, Scarvia B. – 1969
This report, addressed to graduate students who intend to enter into field research in inner-city settings, details some of the personnel and community relations problems and logistical and financial challenges encountered by a research team, which undertook an evaluation of early education programs, basic research on child development, and social…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Community Relations, Community Surveys
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