The author discusses the growing trend toward greater individualism, independence, and personal freedom in public education today. (Author/BY)

Growing out of a child's cognitive developmental history, formal operation becomes established at about the age of 12-15 years. The essence of the logic of cultured adults and the basis for elementary scientific thought are thereby provided. The rate at which a child progresses through the developmental succession may vary, especially from one…

This article contains responses from recent enrollees of one Employability Development Team of the Concentrated Employment Program to the question: What is your best or most important learning experience, and under what circumstances did it come about?" (Author)

The author initiated a method called rural animation to change the big conservative agricultural population of Tanzania. This method is based on making the local people aware of the problems of development and giving them a feeling of desire for change. Then training programs and action techniques will be initiated successfully. (RR)

The adaptation of Tanzanian students of education to a new way of life that successfully integrates tribal influences with modern ideas creates a personal crisis. (CK)

Teaching today should be more student oriented if students are to learn to inquire, think, and learn autonomously. (CK)

Discusses the role of play in development from both cultural-evolutionary and ontogenetic-historical perspectives. These perspectives illuminate how play and imitation are important for the developing individual who is seen as influencing a changing cultural environment. (Author/RH)

Twenty-two infants (6.7 to 12.3 months old) were tested on a visual-cliff apparatus both crawling and in a walker. Results suggest a maturation-based explanation of cliff-avoidance in infants. (CM)

Views various ways in which ethnic groups seek to reaffirm their own worth, including minority consciousness, consciousness-raising, particularized cultural values, and comparing one's own cultural group favorably with all other group. Suggests that all peoples should remember that, in addition to having an ethnic background, they all share a more…

If school personnel are to do their jobs well, they must master the principles of positive growth for their own lives. Developing a positive view of self is not an easy task. Discusses the personal characteristics necessary for one to grow and to be able to accept change. (Author/RK)