The rate and nature of mother-child interaction - verbal and nonverbal- and its effects are here discussed and recent research is presented and analyzed. (Editor/JB)

An investigation to account for age changes in the accuracy with which children match auditory to visual series. (Author)

Educators must provide leadership to develop a comprehensive system of education that strengthens and integrates the educational efforts of family, community, mass media, and schools. (Author)

A rating-scale instrument was devised to clarify the relationship between children's judgments of naughtiness of a story character and the story's description of the character's intent and the consequences of his behavior. (Author)

Parents constantly influence--positively or negatively--the formation of their child's psyche. Throughout all their life they carry--embedded in their unconscious or subconscious--traces of parental influence. (CK)

Six basic hypotheses concerned with child development and learning are described that should be understood by educators attempting to meet the needs of disadvantaged youth. (JH)

Explains the history, philosophy, and practices of public preschools in Russia. (DR)