This videotape explores the relationship between the child's social world and cognitive development. The first part of the video examines why the social environment is important to brain development. This section looks at the amount of time a child spends in a social environment, and the anatomy of the developing brain. The second part of the…

Study of the arts enhances young people's intellectual, personal, and social development. The arts provide a rich and engaging curriculum that develops students? abilities to think, reason, and understand the world and its cultures. A comprehensive arts education encompasses such areas as the history of the arts, the honing of critical-analysis…

Suggests that a new type of intensive interdependence among nation-States has emerged, centered on the generation and application of knowledge. The implications of this interdependence for the nation-States are considered, with the European Common Market as illustration. (Author)

In a study of attachment behavior 10-month-old infants were observed under three conditions: with the mother, with an adult female stranger, and when both were present. Infants directed more social responses to the mother, but the stranger evoked more exploration behavior than distress. (ST)

A study of 287 kindergartners, who were retested in second grade, indicated that two major factor dimensions jointly account for much of the social-emotional behavior of children and are relatively stable personality dimensions. (ST)

Author points out how children are naturally interested in the future and suggests ways for teachers to encourage this interest. (GB)

As an important part of the plan to record and systematically deal with all observable behavioral events that constitute an infant's waking life, all social encounters between the baby and other persons that occurred during weekly observations of two infants in their everyday milieu were recorded. (Author/CB)

Interprets the efforts to reduce poverty and socio-cultural disadvantage in the Lesser Slave Lake Region, one of Canada's foremost case studies in rational planning and development. (Author/JM)

Article discusses Brazil's Domestic Peace Corps program whereby thousands of university students participate in training and work programs in the country's remote wastelands and rain forests. (GB)

Children who are given many opportunities to love and feel loved when they are young will have an excellent foundation for continuing that growth process as adults. (Author)

Author feels that exposure to alternative life styles is an important part of the responsibility of any school. (GB)

A project is described which sought to explore a new form of game using a model social system. This is called Ecogame'' and involved an on-line interaction with a dynamic computerized model economy. (Author)

In this paper there is an effort to look at variant family forms in relation to middle and old age through fiction. (Author)

Social engineering is defined as a process whereby intellectual experts would determine the goals to be pursued for man; the implications are discussed and highly criticized, with the author pointing out the negative effects on human dignity, self development, and education. (JB)