This study paper discusses (1) changing emphases and current interpretations of child development; (2) the context of family, culture, and education within which children develop; (3) the transition to school; and (4) new issues concerning children, parents, and teachers in society today. Section 1 establishes 1959 as an approximate turning point…

Senator Glen Taylor of Minnesota proposed a five-year child-care program for the purposes of encouraging employer-sponsored child care and increasing by 53,000 the number of children in low-income families who were covered. This report lists central features of the program, which include: (1) tax incentives which employers can use when they build…

This collection of reports evaluates ten Title I programs which were implemented in the Cleveland (Ohio) public and parochial schools during the 1980-81 school year. The following projects are discussed: (1) Child Development Project; (2) Children in Institutions Project; (3) Cleveland Fundamental School Basic Skills Reinforcement Project; (4)…

Five issues of the bulletin "Zero To Three" are collected here. The first issue features a discussion by T. Berry Brazelton of assessment as a method for enhancing infant development. The second excerpts materials from Stanley I. Greenspan's book "Psychopathology and Adaptation in Infancy and Early Childhood." The excerpt…

The San Francisco Infant Program provides classroom and home educational programs for handicapped (or at-risk) infants (0-18) months and toddlers (18-36 months), parent training, preservice and inservice training, and research opportunities. The transdisciplinary training focuses on the following skills: gross and fine motor, cognitive,…

This paper summarizes research findings which suggest that 6 to 11 year olds may be more vulnerable to environmental crises than younger or older youths. A survey of Moroccan immigrants in Israel and France found that those aged 6-ll at the time of immigration had a smaller percentage admitted to college than those aged 0-5 and 12 and over when…

This paper describes an instructional improvement project which produced a series of eight 30-minute videocassettes and an observation guide focusing on the child rearing strategies of parents to provide undergraduate students in developmental psychology with greater understanding and empathy for the parenting role. Specific child development…

Project Word-Back, an exploratory followup study of 21 young deaf-blind (Rubella) children (6 to 9 years old), was conducted to establish a tentative reference source of information, obtain teacher estimates on selected aspects of the current functioning level of a sample of children, and provide basic data from which hypotheses may be formulated…

Ideas for working with 1-year-old children are provided in this staff development module for the caregiver or teacher in a military child care center. Sections of the module describe what "pretoddlers" are like and provide guidelines for facilitating their physical, socioemotional, and language development. The final section discusses…

Although researchers have investigated the development of racially-mixed persons of backgrounds other than black, little attention has been given to children of black and white parents. For children to view their mixed-racial background positively, the family must nurture both parts of the child's background by providing the child with both black…

This article focuses on an early childhood programme that has been initiated by the Institute for Educational Development at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. The programme is a Certificate in Education and involves training teachers so as to enable them to understand early childhood education and development, and to become effective…

This paper emphasizes the seemingly incompatible roles of researcher (who focuses on reliable cause-effect relationships) and clinician (who endeavors to provide valid treatment to the client). As a counselor working with 9-13-year old dependent and neglected children, he is called on to fill both roles. This paper describes the creation of a…

This two-volume annotated bibliography cites 900 articles covering a variety of issues related to preschool education in several Eastern and Western countries, including England, France, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and the United States. Entries are classified into 13 main categories: social and ideological bases of preschool…

The current state of and opportunities for basic research related to child and adolescent development are described in this report. The document was prepared as a resource for developing the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's 5-year plan of research for the years 1983-1987. Five broad areas of research are addressed: (1)…

This paper describes how Wichita, Kansas, public school teachers developed a grade K-2 social studies curriculum focusing upon the developmental needs of children. A group of teachers met to examine textbooks and recommend a future social studies basal textbook adoption. They were not pleased with the primary level texts available through…