From a symposium on Cross-Cultural Studies of Mother-Infant Interaction at the Biennial Meeting for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minn., April 2, 1971. (MB)

Confirms a trend in an earlier study for high-contact Aboriginals to perform on classification tests at about the same level as white children in a similar environment, despite the markedly lower verbal intelligence quotient scores of Aboriginal children. (RJ)

Describes grade 9 student responses to instructional materials constructed on objectives derived from Piaget's balance and inclined place problems. Concludes the presence of a hierarchy only in the balance objectives. Indicates implications worthy of further studies. (CC)

Presents a music curriculum which provides a music program for preschool through high school students that emphasizes comprehensive musicianship in all learning experiences. (Author/RK)

Condensed version of essay to appear in the Fall 1972 issue of Teachers College Record." Focuses on the case against preschool promoters as killjoys of learning. (DM)

A Parent Education Program is developed in which a paraprofessional person teaches mothers a set of specific activities to enhance the intellectual and personal development of the child. (MF)

Implications of this study on child-development theory, education, and psychotherapy are discussed. (MB)

Article describes an experiment to deterimine how to promote cognitive growth in terms of classroom mathematics learning. (MM)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

The large number of studies which have been published recently on the cross-cultural implications of Piaget's theory are extremely heterogeneous. This summary attempts to classify them into descriptive and quasi-experimental. (Author/SB)