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Ellis, DiAnn – 1977
This paper briefly describes four early childhood education philosophies (cognitive-interactionist, behaviorist, affective-interactionist, and developmental-maturationist). Each philosophy is briefly reviewed to provide understanding of its application to an appropriate curriculum model. A reading program congruent with each philosophy and model…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Behavior Change, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Download full textSeefeldt, Vern; Gould, Daniel – 1980
Research examining the effects of sports participation on children and youth is reviewed from the perspective of psychological and physical development. Statistical information regarding the participation rate in different kinds of youth sports is given. The effects of prolonged athletic activity on bone, muscle, and adipose tissue growth is…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Athletics, Child Development, Child Welfare
Pierce, Chester M., Ed. – 1978
This booklet contains five papers focusing primarily on the potential of television for contributing to children's learning and prosocial behavior and on the problems involved in realizing this potential. The first paper provides information relevant to child development and learning theory. The second paper discusses the potential power of…
Descriptors: Animation, Child Development, Childrens Television, Commercial Television
Rubin, Kenneth H.; Krasnor, Linda Rose – 1979
This longitudinal study of changes in play behavior in preschool children reports decreases in less mature forms of play and increases in more mature forms of play over time. The study was designed to test the assumption that the play of young children develops in a progressive manner. Ten 3-year-olds and ten 4-year-olds were observed during free…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Childrens Games
Steinberg, Laurence D.; Green, Cynthia – 1979
This paper investigates how parents are affected by various types of child care. Interviews were conducted with 109 mothers of children aged 2 to 3 1/2 years placed in one of three forms of substitute care arrangement (day care center, family day care and in-home care.) Most of the families were intact and middle class. The three groups of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Rosenberg, Steven A. – 1977
The paper describes a study of the relationship of personality and family variables to the capacity of 42 families to care for their handicapped infants. The predictor variables included two distinct measures of commitment as well as measures of consensus, resources, boundary permeability and locus of control. Outcome measures were the child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Exceptional Child Research, Family Attitudes, Family Relationship
Lewis, Frank W. – 1979
The advice of Jean Piaget on the role of the educator as promoter of human development in students is reviewed. Included in this study are his observations and admonitions about characteristic duties and functions of a teacher as seen from the perspective of his research findings about the development of human learning and the learner. (JD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Learning Processes, Motivation Techniques
BLOOM, BENJAMIN S. – 1965
RECOGNITION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF CULTURALLY AND SOCIALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN TOGETHER WITH THE GROWING EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT ON LATER EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT HAS LED TO THE PROPOSING OF LARGE-SCALE PROGRAMS TO ATTACK THESE PROBLEMS. IT SEEMS THAT SPECIAL NURSERY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS OFFER THE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Early Experience
Lopate, Carol; And Others – 1969
This review paper on the current issue of school decentralization points out that it has been consistently demonstrated that participation in the decision making process results in positive changes in both the affective and instrumental behavior of participants. Studies show that parent involvement in the schools enhances children's development…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Influence, Community Schools, Decentralization
Newton, M. R.; Brown, Racine D. – 1967
The aim of this project was to use and evaluate inaction, amelioration, consultation, focused education, mobilization of existing strengths, and strategic deployment of treatment at the point of crisis or potential stress. Focusing on school entry, the project attempted to identify variables of "life crisis" and determine empirically those…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Child Development, Environmental Influences
Berg, Paul C., Ed.; George, John E., Ed. – 1968
The three papers presented in this publication examine in depth the thought and practices that currently prevail in the specialized areas of reading and concept attainment. Two of the papers deal with concept learning and the transformation of this knowledge into instructional guidelines. The third paper considers the importance o f concept…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationWalter, James E. – 1976
This report describes activities related to establishing and providing technical assistance to nine new state Individually Guided Education (IGE) networks, providing technical assistance to fourteen state IGE networks operating prior to July 1974, conducting fifteen leadership workshops and establishing four regional IGE institutes. Attention is…
Descriptors: Child Development, Formative Evaluation, Individual Development, Information Dissemination
Haulman, C. A.; And Others – 1975
This report details the development and evaluation of a model program for inservice training of full-time child day care personnel. Based on a survey of licensed day care centers in Virginia, the program involved 100 participants, ranging from day care aides through center directors. The 10-week training element was presented three successive…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Siegel, Alexander W. – 1975
The literature on performance differences in various tasks as a function of reflection-impulsivity (R-I) is reviewed in this publication. A series of four experiments is then described which involve the cognitive-perceptual basis of R-I of children on a picture recognition memory task. Results from these studies indicated the following important,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo
West Chester State Coll., PA. – 1973
This manual, designed to orient new assistant teachers to the principles and routines of the Pennsylvania Research in Infant Development and Education (PRIDE) project, a center-based program enrolling 43 children ages 12-38 months, contains a brief section giving background information on the project and the project's specific guidelines for…
Descriptors: Activities, Child Development Centers, Discipline, Guides
