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Janas, Monica; Nabors, Martha L. – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2000
Offers suggestions for encouraging development of resiliency in young children in early childhood settings. Suggestions include providing care and support, increasing bonding, setting clear and consistent boundaries, setting and communicating high standards, teaching life skills, and providing opportunities for meaningful participation. Asserts…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development

Baker, Kay – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses Montessori theories for development of social, moral, cognitive, and emotional dimensions of the human personality during the second plane of development--age six to puberty--as these theories relate to the theory of optimal experience. (JPB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Academy for Educational Development, 2007
This is a report on the Symposium that accompanied the 15-16 May, 2007 meeting of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education. The IATT Symposium provided an opportunity to address in some detail two selected problems that are critical to stemming the advance of HIV infection--areas that have had some attention, but remain insufficiently…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Educational Development, Conflict
Rankin-Brown, Maria; Fitzpatrick, Carrie – Online Submission, 2007
Background: This study involved a bicoastal project between four composition classes, two in California and two in Pennsylvania. The focus was on how students read, write, and converse about ethnic and spiritual distinctiveness and the role of writing in identity development. Purpose: The researchers exercised a variety of methods (diverse…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
Furman, Wyndol; Lanthier, Richard P. – Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 1996
This study examined the role personality variables play in sibling relationships. It proposed that the characteristics of sibling relationships are influenced by: family constellation variables such as birth order, gender, and age spacing; parent-child relationships including quality of relationship and parent management of siblings; and the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Development, Family Life, First Born
Benge, Beverly; Montgomery, Diane – 1996
Twice exceptional students are those who have emotional disturbances or behavioral disorders (E/BD) and who also display characteristics of high intellectual ability. Case studies were developed over a 3-year period on three male junior high school students who fit this definition. Data were interpreted using Kazimierz Dabrowski's Theory of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Exceptional Child Research
Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne; West, Malcolm – 1995
This paper synthesizes a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on attachment theory, on the agency/communion polarity as first defined by David Bakan (1966). The question researchers sought to answer was whether or not agency/communion is best approached as a polarity--opposite and opposing forces, forces in the personality which have often…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1982
The booklet is part of a grade 10-12 social studies series produced for bilingual education. The series consists of six major thematic modules, with four to five booklets in each. The interdisciplinary modules are based on major ideas and designed to help students understand some major human problems and make sound, responsive decisions to improve…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making, Glossaries
Kaplan, Robert E. – 1991
This report seeks to understand executive leadership by focusing on a character type called "expansive." Expansive character revolves around mastery of tasks and a continual desire to accomplish. In the report, several goals are featured: to define what expansive character is; to discuss its origins; to show how moderate versus extreme…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Psychology, Industrial Psychology, Leadership
O'Connor, Nancy – 1994
The thesis of this self-help book is that four personality aspects (physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual) must be balanced if individuals are to become adults. Because each person is an individual personality that is out of balance in some way, growth is a life-long process. The initial 2 chapters, Growth And Growing Up, define what it…
Descriptors: Adults, Emotional Development, Individual Characteristics, Individual Counseling

Kerckhoff, Richard K. – Family Coordinator, 1976
The author discusses the various contradictory views about middle age. Some claim that middle aged persons face a new identity crisis and have a number of adjustment problems in their work and marriage. Others maintain that middle age is a period of maturity and strength. (SE)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Individual Characteristics, Marriage

Satir, Virginia M. – Small Group Behavior, 1975
This article discusses the need for education about family life, who should teach it and the kinds of information that should be taught. The author feels that parents need to be taught to raise their children to be loving and to accept differences among people. (EJT)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Educational Objectives, Family Influence, Family Life
Bessette, Janelle M.; And Others – 1984
An investigation explored whether preadolescent children have developed self-schemata which serve in making judgments about trait behavior for both self and others. Seventeen males and 23 females between the ages of 10 and 11 who attended a public elementary school on Long Island were interviewed. Children rated themselves relative to classmates…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Plays for the Special Education Classroom: 10 Short Plays Designed to Promote Character Development.
Gibberman, Charlotte – 1986
This booklet contains 10 short plays written especially for performance by spcial education students who ranged in age from five to ten and in academic level from kindergarten to fourth grade. The plays focus on promoting character development and topics include death, prejudice, manners, senior citizens, responsibility for others, and positive…
Descriptors: Bias, Blindness, Death, Disabilities
Kreppner, Kurt – 1989
This study was designed to investigate aspects of childhood social functioning in early interaction and socialization patterns of normal families. Sixteen families with a child between 1 and 3 years of age, and a second child born when the study began, were observed over a 2-year period. Intelligence tests were administered to both children when…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Family Characteristics, Family Structure