The study compared the level of development observed in the imaginative play of young children with the level of development revealed in conservation an classification tasks. The sample included 40 children, with one 5/6-year old group of 20 children (10 boys, 10 girls), and two six/seven-year old groups of 20 children (14 boys, 6 girls). The…

It was hypothesized that children, like adults, cognize social groups by applying social schemata. Their facility with social schemata was predicted to be a function of their level of cognitive development. When children were asked to complete partial social structures, formal and concrete operational, but not preoperational children, readily…

UNESCO's plan to use education as an instrument for national development would place the school at the center of the social change process. The author outlines the planning strategies, program design and institutional structures, and educational roles for adult educators if they desire to play roles in the emerging Learning Society. (Author/AJ)

Results indicate that reward and ignore conditions were not different but both yielded higher imitative scores than the punishment condition; same-sex models yielded higher imitation scores than opposite-sex models; lowest imitation scores were obtained by children exposed to a male experimenter and a female model. (Author/BJG)

From the first years of its existence, the Petersburg Academy of Sciences was tied by thousands of visible and invisible threads to the growth of spiritual culture and to the increase in the intellectual potential of the people. (Author)

The complete research report is available from ERIC under the title of "Employment Status and Characteristics of High School Dropouts of High Ability, U.S. Office of Education contract OEC-5-85-029.

Report based upon a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Denver, and prepared under grant MH-08142-03 from the U.S. Public Health Service.

The Support Development Group is an approach which explores and develops a theory for the relationship between network characteristics and notions of psychosocial adaptation. The approach is based on the assumption that teaching people to view their social world in network terms can be helpful to them. The Support Development Workshop is presented…

The intellectual and social abilities of young precocious children and the effects of educational interventions on these children are examined in this third year report of a longitudinal study of the developmental patterns of unusually precocious children. The report focuses on several studies conducted with preschool and elementary school age…

Conference proceedings from this national symposium on hard scientific research and developments in teaching tennis, squash, racquetball, and badminton are divided into several sections. The first deals with sports medicine and the biomechanics of the racquet sports. The second part discusses the pyschological and sociological aspects of…

While existing research suggests that schools have only indirect effects on students' racial and political attitudes, the social and demographic characteristics of desegregated classrooms may produce certain normative and behavioral outcomes which encourage children to accept human diversity encountered in concrete situations. This pattern of…

A new conceptualization of interpersonal relationship, based on the notions of specific and generalized expectancies and other basic tenets of Rotter's social learning theory, is presented. Interpersonal relationships are translated into the language of social learning theory, with its established body of literature and methodology. Two studies…