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Palmer, Wolf Dennie; And Others – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Presents four articles in the context of workshop discussions on characteristics of environments that promote language development: (1) "Children's Conversations: Why are They Important?"; (2) "Ways of Talking: Respecting Differences"; (3) Paul's Talk: Teachers and Parents Look at a Child's Language"; and (4) "In the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Delayed Speech
Atkinson, Christine – 1983
In all of his published work, Jean Piaget never abandoned his original theoretical framework for the understanding of human development. This framework insists that intelligence is essentially a biological phenomenon; its development is best understood as the development of a sophisticated and highly successful adaptation device. This device…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Friedman, Sheila – 1985
L. S. Vygotsky's book "Mind in Society" was published more than 50 years ago in Russia, but it is now being recognized as relevant to contemporary research in child development because of the areas of investigation that he suggested. Vygotsky views children as active participants in their own learning and suggests that researchers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology
