This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume presents one of two programs for training future leaders of the Salvation Army Corps Cadets (ages 12 to 18). The program aims at increasing participants'…

The conference from which the papers in this book are derived addressed the following questions: How is knowledge organized? How does knowledge develop? How is knowledge retrieved and used? What instructional techniques promise to facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge? Separate chapters address types of knowledge and purposes of education;…

This guide to films and filmstrips on early childhood is organized into six categories: child development (normal and special, from infancy to preadolescence); community and parent education (helpful to persons planning parent programs); culture and children (showing children learning and developing in different cultures); current trends in early…

The essays in this volume have been collected to provide classroom teachers with materials from leading theorists in the United States and Great Britian which deals with the teaching of written composition in the elementary school (grades 1-8). These essays are presented in one of five categories: theories of written discourse and theories on the…

The purpose of this study was to develop teaching strategies that are designed to enable elementary pupils to form literary concepts through inductive processes. This research has four phases in its design. In the planning phase, a theoretical base for designing the strategies is developed from a synthesis of four areas of research and theory:…

The concepts of front, back, and side may be easily understood in relation to an intrinsically fronted item, but with a nonfronted object they depend on situational or psychological cues. A study investigated a child's awareness of the front, back, and side of his own body and of fronted and nonfronted objects. Researchers hypothesized that a…

This book presents the basic ideas, motives, and goals of the Montessori Method of early childhood education and provides information for people interested in teaching in Montessori schools. Four main sections are included: (1) a discussion of the philosophical roots of the Mntessori Method and descriptions of the practical, day-to-day, operations…

Research (1972-74) concerning infant care and development is surveyed, supplementing an earlier review of literature on the same subject. The literature search was performed to provide materials which could contribute to the improvement of services to school-age parents with infants. Studies dealing with infant development (e.g., nutrition, early…

Speech discrimination by 12 children aged about 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 years was tested, using the discrimination learning procedure of Shvachkin's 1948 Russian study. Recent work on the acquisition of syntax and semantics shows an ordered acquisition for linguistic items; this pilot study was to test whether the ability to discriminate between consonants…

This report contains suggestions for state level policy that move away from the deficit model of intervention and toward a policy of continuing support to all young children and their families. It includes information for evaluating programs and deals largely with methods of program implementation in four areas of early childhood: (1) education…

The Educational Resources and Development Center at the University of Connectiicut conducted an evaluation of the Parent-Child Toy Lending Library Program for the towns of East Hartford and Manchester. Because both towns participated in the training program at the same time and a summation of the training program data provides more accurate…

The Educational Resources and Development Center at the University of Connecticut conducted an evaluation of the Parent-Child Toy Lending Library Program for the towns of East Hartford and Manchester. Because both towns participated in the training program at the same time and a summation of the training program data provides more accurate…

The affective domain defines levels of behavior that pertain to feelings, emotions, attitudes, and values. The affective domain is important in the educational process because the way a child feels about himself as a learner may have a greater impact on his future development than his mastery of a particular skill or set of skills. Because the…

Humanistic psychologists now embrace many of the same principles which served as the basis for Piaget's theory. These same theories were described earlier by John Locke and Immanuel Kant, and were the basis of the new "Humanism" movement in Germany in the 18th century. If one considers humanistic psychology as a kind of culmination of…

The role of the family in the education of a young child, particularly during the first three years of life, is the subject of this symposium address. Four topic areas are identified as the foundation of educational capacity: language development, curiosity, social development, and cognitive intelligence. Professional educators, working directly…