Presented at the twelfth assembly of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, Washington, D. C. (MS)

Paper was presented at the CWLA Southwest Regional Conference, Forth Worth, Texas, 1970. (NH)

Compares academically-oriented, Montessori, British Infant schools and child development or traditional nursery schools. Suggests that a combination of structured learning activities and free play periods is desirable. (NH)

Studied relationships among self-concept, life change experiences (units), satisfaction with school, commitment to classwork, and reactions to teachers in elementary school children. Results indicated young children are experiencing an increased rate of change. There was a significant negative correlation between students' self-concept scores and…

The Russian preschool educational system is described and general problems of preschool pedagogy are examined. Early childhood development and the psychological foundations of communist preschool education are discussed. (RM)

Concerns about the use of evaluation in early childhood education are clustered around some basic issues: the use of standardized tests with young children, the diversity of dimensions of early childhood education that should be evaluated, the relationship of early childhood evaluation to social policy, and the very nature of early childhood…

Study results do not demonstrate that early reading is made possible by precocity in speech-sound segmentation, blending, or discrimination ability, but that the complex skill involving the manipulation of sounds in temporal order may be more closely related to early reading ability. (AEA)

Details Piaget's four stages in the cognitive development of children--the sensorimotor period, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage--and discusses their implications for the planning and design of programs for instructional television, and possible effects on mental development and the cognitive…

Examines components of familial risk in the context of a four-year longitudinal study of children with mentally ill mothers. Risk factors examined were parental mental health, social status, parental perspectives, and family stress. Interactions among risk factors were found to be complex and different for cognitive and social-emotional…

Inclusion of music in public school programs was originally justified on the utilitarian grounds that it fostered social and academic skills. Later an aesthetic rationale emphasized an intrinsic value of music in childrens' development. The position of music education will be precarious until educators provide strong evidence for their positions.…

The literature on the infants of narcotic-addicted mothers is reviewed in regard to psychological outcome and those aspects of the medical consequences that contribute to that outcome. (Author/MP)

The implications of the International School Psychology Committee's Declaration of the Psychological Rights of the Child are reviewed from the perspective of the life-span developmentalist. Primary focus is on how children's rights change from conception to adolescence. A critique of previous attempts to define children's rights is included.…