This book was developed to provide explanatory support material for the classroom teacher or guidance counselor interested in cooperative learning techniques. A brief section on how to use the book is followed by a discussion of the theory behind the concept of cooperative learning. Other introductory sections focus on teambuilding; setting up…

Education is both an idealistic and a practical endeavor. It is essential to have an image of the educated person to which to direct individual efforts and institutional policies. The present view of the educated person is that of a materialist, specialist, individualist, nationalist, secularist, and opportunist. Looking backward, Plato's image of…

This study examined prior qualitative differences in the process of the emergence of verb use in two sisters when they were each 12 to 24 months of age (the older sister is 2 years and 9 months older than the younger sister). Daily diaries on both children were kept by the mother, who noted emergent structure and vocabulary. Systematic Analysis of…

Intended for adults with learning disabilities, this paper offers time management strategies in a work-sheet format. The paper, which was written with the assistance of adults with learning disabilities, explains setting goals, planning, organizing time, and avoiding stress. Guidelines for goal setting include: focus on the present; set goals that…

This handbook, which was written by a retired kindergarten teacher with over 25 years of experience, is intended to bridge the gap between home and school. It describes 260 learning activities, each of which is based on a different concept. Most activities require materials usually found in the home. An activity is provided for each week of the…

A total of 48 Canadian, middle-class 3-year-olds participated in a study of their abilities to predict the actions of a story character with a false belief and a story character engaged in pretence. In the experimental situation, a red puppet with pen-markers for legs left an "inky trail" to the location of a hidden treasure in one of…

This study was concerned with determining whether short-term groups oriented toward self-awareness are capable of producing changes in the participants' ability to manage their own feelings of anxiety and to develop more functional self-perceptions in the area of their cognitive processes, emotional reactions, and physical attributes. (Author)

An art critic related art with social experience, a process by which large segments of our total population might be acquainted with their creative selves. (Author/RK)

Argues that severe infant malnutrition is shockingly widespread in the United States, that the effects of malnutrition in infancy are now recognized to be much more devastating than had hitherto been known, and that the probable relationship between poverty, malnutrition, and mental deficiency is far too strong to overlook. [Available from…

This article is a review of five selected theories of person/environment interaction. The five theoretical viewpoints reviewed are Barker's theory of behavior settings, the subculture approach, Holland's theory of personality types and model environments, Stern's need X press=culture theory, and Pervin's transactional approach. (Author)

Article concerned an informal evaluation made to determine whether activities and programs fit the goals of a school. (Editor/RK)

A study of the relationship between pain-relieving drugs given to mothers during labor and delivery and neonatal behavior as assessed by the Brazelton Scales. Tested 44 infants on eight different days during their first month of life. (SDH)

In view of differences of opinion as to what is meant by quality goals, this article approached the problem of quality through considering procedures. (Author/RK)

This article describes the processes of a weekly group composed of senior and junior staff in a multidisciplinary university clinic whose purpose was to further the climate of therapeutic community by working through intrastaff conflicts and to dilute the dependency and accompanying hostility of the professional trainees assigned to the clinic.…