Research on environmental strategies to increase positive peer interactions has been conducted on a wide range of children, including 2- to 5-year-old typically developing children and children with a variety of developmental and social disabilities. Intervention efforts have been successful with both typically developing children and children…

A presentation examines the empirical research on the quality of children's social and educational experiences in educational environments and discusses why the public should be concerned with providing optimal environments for learning. It explores what an optimal learning environment is and provides its five attributes, including its ability to…

During the past two decades, a convincing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that unless children achieve minimal social competence by about the age of 6 years, they have a high probability of being at risk into adulthood in several ways. This digest presents a checklist of attributes of child social behavior that teachers are encouraged…

A Social Interest Index was developed to measure the level of social interest an individual has attained. Social interest was viewed as the willingness to contribute and cooperate within the areas of four life tasks (works, friendship, love, and self-significance). Findings relate the level of social interest to the variables of sex, socioeconomic…

This paper analyzes selected films and filmstrips (according to five broad classifications: biology, family life, social development, personality, and social issues) as part of a larger study defining the specific subject matter of sex education. The amount of attention given to the topics of reproduction, fertilization and birth processes,…

The physical, social, emotional, and cognitive gains derived from block building are examined in relation to learning needs of the pre-school child. (CS)

Second graders were more competitive than first graders, thus suggesting that maturational factors as well as school experience may result in greater competition among children. (Authors)

Believes that scientific research is fascinating and the influence of scientific research is felt in areas far from the original field. By influencing society, scientists also open fields for advancements to be made by future generations. (PS)

Research indicates that less streaming of the grammar school ability band leads to social and academic gain for more pupils but with some loss in performance by the brightest boys. Perhaps too wide an ability range in the class would increase this loss intolerably. (Author)

This study analyzes the efficiency of the Soviet educational system as it has been measured against it remarkable expansion in education. (Author/RK)

Describes the difficult choice Americans are facing-whether to adapt to necessary changes, to retreat from progress and development or to degenerate into a battleground of protest and conflict. Analyzes the reasons that precipitated this situation and possible solutions. (RK)

The intellectual and theoretical basis of librarianship is the study of man and societies together with the study of the nature of knowledge-how it is generated, transmitted, and absorbed. (MM)

Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

As humans solve their basic physiological and security needs, they must move toward the consistent satisfaction of social and interpersonal needs. Training programs in interpersonal skills, built into the educational system, would enable people to become competent at initiating and maintaining growth enhancing relationships. (Author/JB)