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Download full textDembo, Myron H. – 1978
Educational psychology departments should offer to interested students throughout the university a parent education course stressing child development and the educational process. As a result of declining enrollments in schools of education, professors of educational psychology need to develop new courses applicable to new student populations.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Curriculum Development, Education Courses
McCabe, Jean S. – 1978
This study investigated the relationship between children's ability to conserve on Piagetian tasks and six measures of the openness of classrooms which comprise the Dimensions of Schooling Questionnaire (DISC): (1) individualization of instruction; (2) student independence; (3) environmental flexibility; (4) nongradedness; (5) flexibility of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Cognitive Development
Vihman, Marilyn May – 1976
A discussion of word acquisition rates and strategies is based upon a 6-month case study of an Estonian-speaking child who gradually and systematically relaxed phonotactic constraints to allow greater complexity in word production. In addition to the cognitive tools of assimilation and accomodation as described by Piaget, the child used a further…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
De Corte, Erik – 1980
The application of a scientific attitude to the field of education is reviewed, with particular regard to the varying perspective concerning the cognitive development and learning processes of children. Flaws in the "top-down" system of research and information dissemination, in which universities are viewed as "producers" and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
O'Connell, Dorothy, Comp.; And Others – 1978
This bulletin, number 40, provides an inventory of abstracts of ongoing or recently completed research studies relating to children. In addition, Bulletin 40 contains a bibliography on adoption which updates previous ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education bibliographies on the subject. Bibliographic sources of the bulletin…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse
Minnesota Council on Quality Education, St. Paul. – 1979
This report presents a study of policy issues related to the provision of early childhood and family education services in Minnesota. Chapter One consists of an executive summary and recommendations. Chapters Two and Three overview the concept, rationale and implementation of Minnesota's early childhood and family education pilot programs.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities
Oscar Rose Junior Coll., Midwest City, OK. – 1976
The purpose of this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, is to help the CDA intern understand the factors and principles which affect the total growth and development of children. Early sections of the module stipulate the module's competency-based objectives, define terms, and suggest procedures by which…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Competency Based Teacher Education, Day Care
Ritter, Virginia F.; Finkelstein, Judith M. – 1979
Stressing that children need opportunities to grow and learn according to their own individual needs, this paper discusses appropriate reading objectives for kindergarten children and suggests numerous activities for kindergarten children who know how to read. The first part of the paper deplores the current trend to skip important developmental…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
Smock, Charles D., Ed.; And Others – 1972
This set of four research reports is a product of the Mathemagenic Activities Program (MAP) for early childhood education of the University of Georgia Follow Through Program. Based on Piagetian theory, the MAP provides sequentially structured sets of curriculum materials and processes that are designed to continually challenge children in…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Blacks, Child Development, Compensatory Education
Langley, M. Beth – 1980
The report examines, from a cognitive developmental view, research on the teachable moment or critical learning period in handicapped infants. The author explains that developmental gaps are produced by a mismatch between the infant's readiness and opportunity to learn. Characteristics and educational implications of specific handicapping…
Descriptors: Autism, Blindness, Cerebral Palsy, Child Development
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1980
This publication, third in a biennial series of reports, focuses on the status of children, youth and families in 1979. Chapter I discusses historical and current demographic and economic trends that have occurred in the characteristics and circumstances of the United States population. Chapter II attempts to capture the factor of time in human…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
GORDON, IRA J. – 1967
AN INTERVENTION PILOT PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE DISADVANTAGED INFANTS WITH STIMULATING EXPERIENCES TO HLEP THEM ACHIEVE HIGHER LEVELS OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT THAN MIGHT NORMALLY BE EXPECTED IN CHILDREN FROM DEPRIVED HOMES. FIFTEEN DISADVANTAGED WOMEN TRAINED AS "PARENT EDUCATORS" WENT INTO 100 HOMES ONCE A WEEK FOR 40 WEEKS…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Experience
Peterson, B. – 1975
One of five individualized courses included in a parent involvement curriculum, this course covers physical, mental, social-emotional development of children ages five through thirteen, feelings of security and adequacy, understanding of self and others, and self-discipline. The course is comprised of two units: (1) Middle Childhood and (2) Later…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1977
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the first in a series of 19 hearings dating from…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Child Development, Delinquent Behavior
Jones, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1979
This publication describes infant and toddler programs in which young children and their parents are seen as trustworthy, competent people able to make decisions and solve problems. In Chapter 1, aspects of the Pacific Oaks Infant-Toddler-Parent Program are described, infant-toddler safety rules are listed, and guidelines for parent observation…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Environment
