This study attempts to investigate the effects of increased maternal visual regard on neonatal social visual behavior and upon patterns of mother-neonate interaction within the context of a learning theory paradigm. Subjects were 3-day-old neonates and their mothers; with 10 of the 15 mother-neonate pairs as the experimental group, and 5 as the…

A system of social indicators for the integrated and systemic study of rural socioeconomic development was constructed. Specific features of the system were that it: (1) embraced nearly all aspects of life activity of the rural population, ranging from work in the public sector to leisure behaviour; (2) included social indicators which measured…

Presented are a conceptual and empirical framework and two research reports on the promotion of language and social skills of handicapped preschool children through involvement with nonhandicapped peers. (DB)

Reviewed is the California Preschool Social Competency Scale intended for use with children 2 years 6 months through 5 years 6 months of age. (DB)

Discussed is the parents' role in providing training procedures to meet the developmental needs of blind infants. (Author/LS)

Discusses two extreme theories about the social development of a child: "sociocentrism" considers the social integration of the individual as adaption to societal standards, attitudes, patterns, and language; "pedocentrism" sees development as a result of previous psychological aptitudes within the child. Notes problems associated with each…

Concepts and suggestions are offered to deaf adolescents for achieving independent living or social independence. (BD)

Uses longitudinal data from fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children to test several hypotheses predicting influences of instructional organization on the formation and stability of children's friendships. (Author)

Maintains that general and vocational educational development in the Soviet Union should be based on the needs of the working class, the collective farm peasantry, and intelligentsia on the one hand and on the needs of industry, science, and culture on the other hand. (Author/DB)

The process of developing a distinctively Canadian junior high school curriculum unit integrating subject content of history, science, and geography around a common theme is discussed. The unit focuses on the life cycle and environment of the Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar. (MJB)

To understand the meaning of a teenager's behavior, it is necessary to have an overall understanding of psychological development. (MM)

Three measures of academic intelligence and three measures of social intelligence were investigated in a group of college students. In the social domain, intradomain correlations were no higher than interdomain, factor analyses produced no identifiable social factor, and academic measures were better at predicting a social competence criterion…

This paper examines changing patterns of social relations which have affected the lives of children, both within the family and outside it. (BP)

Uses data from a longitudinal study of drug abuse in adolescence to discuss strategies in the study of transitions into various developmental stages. Compares advantages and disadvantages of strategies based on a decomposed sample with strategies based on a pooled sample. (Author/AV)

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)