Implications of this study on child-development theory, education, and psychotherapy are discussed. (MB)

This discussion of the role of structured guidance in facilitating cognitive development presents the author's point of view regarding a current issue in early childhood education. (WY)

Summarizes the results of a survey, conducted several years ago in Kansas, of the extent of, and students' feelings about, interracial dating at a desegregated high school. (JM)

A study of the effect of early admission on children in the first, third, fifth, and seventh grades in terms of academic and nonacademic achievement social and emotional development. Results showed no significant differences between early-admit children and their non-early-admit peers. (Author)

Suggests the extent of institutionalized racism through an analysis of how junior high school students accepted the biased definition of the word native" provided in standard dictionaries despite the students' own generally unbiased orientation (JM)

Paper presented at a Symposium on Vocational Development Theory, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, July 30, 1968.

Evidence that thought is a displaced social process contradicts the assumptions that the mind is a mirror of nature and thought a private, individual process. A curriculum that involves learning to identify beliefs, to analyze and express beliefs socially, and to understand and form communities of knowledgeable peers is described. (Author/MLW)

H. Michael Sokolow's position on whether or not educational institutions should be regarded as morally responsible (in reference to various important contemporary problems) is critiqued, and an alternative view of educational institutions' moral responsibility is offered. (Author/CJ)

Describes social processes accounting for variation in unacquainted children's progress toward friendship, presenting results of two studies of children's conversations with peers. The first study involved 26 dyads from three to six years of age, playing in their homes with either a best friend or stranger. The second involved 18 unacquainted…

Investigators studied whether a systematically designed recreation program stressing cooperation and interaction among mentally retarded adults would increase the duration and frequency of social contacts. While the program did increase the frequency of social interactions, effects did not carry over after it ended. (Author/PP)

Discusses public libraries' major educational role and unique educational tools, which are indispensable for successful modernization in developing countries, and attempts to construct a model of the interaction between socioeconomic growth, adult education, and human resource development. Seven references and a 29-item selected bibliography are…