The National Capital Parks Service provides reenactments of the battle Antietam at its actual location in Sharpsburg, Maryland as a part of its program of living history

Spontaneous thematic play behavior in children is investigated. Environmental prerequisites of play and possible functions of play in cognitive and personality development are discussed. Whether modelling is a prerequisite for thematic play, and the relationship between level of play and creativity test performance in children are assessed. (DP)

Investigations of relationship of teachers behavior to childrens task behavior in preschool. Less critical, less directive teachers showed a higher rate of children's task behavior. (ST)

Play in nursery school programs stimulates aurally handicapped students in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor dimensions and also provides opportunities for career exploration. (MC)

Second and third grades studied in an experimental group obtained higher grades than a similar control group on a problem-solving posttest. (Editor)

A controlled outpatient study of 19 hyperactive boys (aged 4-10 years) of normal intelligence examined the effects of placebo and two different drugs on the boys' playroom behavior. (Author/NH)

Consists of 10 articles dealing with such topics as why children play, which particular variables instigate play, does play make a difference, and do games and sports make a difference. (NQ)

As a teacher you can make use of a child's everyday environment to provide meaningful, concrete experiences that involve sorting, comparing, matching, and counting. (Author)

Suggests classroom materials and activities which, in the absence of male teachers, may be used in preschool and primary classrooms to provide male sex-role models. (NH)

Three new approaches--one from theater, one from humanistic psychology, and one from the art world--promise different ways of handling English teaching. (Author)

In a conversation, well known architectural innovator in the area of playgrounds presents his views on one of education's most underestimated and most misunderstood facilities. (EA)

Membership Issue. (DS)

Highlights the 1982 International Colloquy of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, which was entitled "The Right to Be a Child." Children's basic needs were seen as the rights to food, to play, and to peace. (RH)