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Fowler, William – Merrill-Palmer Quart, 1969
Paper, revised for publication, presented at a Symposium on Heredity and Environment (AERA, New York City, Feb. 16, 1967)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedFowler, William – Young Children, 1971
This discussion of the role of structured guidance in facilitating cognitive development presents the author's point of view regarding a current issue in early childhood education. (WY)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Programs, Early Childhood Education
Download full textFowler, William – 1967
Studies of the effect of environmental stimulation on an individual's development in either general or specific ability conclude that some specific stimulation should be introduced at an early age while a child is still malleable. An intense, persistent, and regular tutorial approach within the family encourages the development of a special talent…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Early Experience
Peer reviewedFowler, William – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Provides a detailed, month-by-month account of a child's accelerated development from birth to age three. The parents and nannies followed a combined socially interactive and cognitively oriented language enrichment program that was developed to have significant, long-term effects on verbal, social, and cognitive competencies from infancy through…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Age Differences, Case Studies, Child Development
Fowler, William; And Others – 1993
This paper reports results from two dissertation studies and several pilot and case studies examining the effects of early enrichment on children's language and cognitive development. Early enrichment in these studies included home visits with parents, typically beginning before the child reached 6 months of age, and continuing until the child was…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Experience, Early Intervention
Fowler, William – 1966
Cognitive developmental learning is a concept expressing the hypothesis that learning has a continuing, cumulative, and transformational function in the development of intelligence. Two important questions are, "How much do we know about methods?" and "What classes of knowledge and abilities should we develop?" An analysis of past investigations,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Experience, Educational Experience
Fowler, William
Proposed is a model for basic preconditions for "the design of effective programs in developmental learning." Such a program should include (1) a continuous psychocognitive diagnosis and assessment of each child; (2) a structured, coherent, sequential approach to content area; (3) a focus on symbolic manipulation and the essentials of a concept;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Fowler, William; And Others – 1972
The project reported on is designed to develop a model program of infant and child day care in a municipal setting. The development of the program is discussed under the following topics: (1) physical caregiving routines; (2) guided learning through play; (3) supervising children in free play; (4) staff guidance and communication: inservice…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
