The author summarizes some of Piaget's beliefs, and states that the curriculum in today's schools must be changed in order to put into practice some of these beliefs, and to prepare students to reason together and work cooperatively to solve common world problems. (KC)

In describing the basic philosophies of open education, this article discusses the close relationship between cognition and emotion in learning, the teacher's role in helping a child's thinking powers develop, and the role that environment plays in a child's emotional and intellectual development. (EB)

Children, and especially Black children, are confronted with choices, peer pressures, domestic role reversals, and other influences that pose a significant threat to their full development as productive citizens and well-adjusted human beings. These factors must be dealt with by an informed society. (EB)

The article describes FEED (Facilitative Environments Encouraging Development), a junior high child development curriculum for potential mothers, intended to result in improved childrearing practices that will in turn offset all or most of the negative effects of the low birthweight and prematurity that are associated with teenage pregnancies.…

Reviews evidence on the effects of maternal employment on young children and suggests that there is no damaging over-riding effect of day care per se on children. (CM)

Reports on a conference of the American Chemical Society in which ways to increase children's interest and exposure to science were discussed. (CP)

Reviews a study in which poverty level families received weekly visits by parent educator personnel from the time a child is born to guide the parents in home learning activities for the youngsters. Results indicate fewer youngsters from the program need special education when compared to a control group. (SL)

In emphasizing the importance of play and toys in a child's development, this article describes the kinds of toys suitable for preschool children of all ages. Floor toys, building and hammering toys, transport, and imaginative and creative play are some of the topics covered. (JK)

Two recently constructed centers for the care of young children illustrate the concern of the directors and governing boards of both centers to achieve something unique in the environmental design of these spaces that would stimulate the learning and visual experiences of young children. (Author/MLF)

Children aged 6 through 9 made drawings of cubes and simple abstract designs, with or without looking at their hand. Copying errors and differences between the age groups were discussed in terms of visual realism (perspective drawing) compared with intellectual realism (structural essentials copied without a unified perspective view). (CTM)

Concluded that the 44 fourth-grade subjects were not highly proficient at adapting messages either to listeners or to readers, but that such adaptation in writing lagged behind adaptation in speaking. (DD)

The authors describe a starting point in spreading adult education to the lower classes--a community education program in a large housing project in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which involved working class mothers in discussions of child development. (MF)

This article lists strategies based on research into child development which can be used to protect the mental health of young children. (CM)

Teachers must be apprised of the child's developmental stages in order to respond appropriately to their students. They must learn to place themselves in the world of the child and to value children's questions. (Author)

This article considers the idea that an analysis of the structure of geography and of the nature of spatial concept development in children will reveal a valuable conceptual link that might serve as a theoretical basis for developing objectives in geographic education. (Author)