A forced-choice observer-based testing procedure was used to determine pure-tone hearing thresholds for 2- to 4-week-old infants. Stimuli were 500-ms tone bursts of 500, 1,000, or 4,000 Hz with 500-ms intervals between tone bursts. Stimuli were presented monaurally by means of an insert earphone. Each 15-s trial consisted of 5 tone bursts,…

Five major reasons for the high incidence of laboratory school closings are indicated prior to a description of survival strategies applied in the Early Learning Center at Pennsylvania's Kutztown State College's Child Development Laboratory School. Causes of laboratory school closure are the following: (1) financial difficulties; (2) retrenchment;…

This paper addresses the need for and importance of integrating nutrition education into the existing preschool curriculum. Following a brief definition of nutrition education according to the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, discussion focuses on determining who is responsible for nutrition education. It is argued that,…

One major responsibility of teachers preparing an optimal learning environment for young children is to provide many types of materials so that children, during the large blocks of exploration time provided each day, may choose for themselves how to elaborate their own skills in each area of development. In addition, teachers must select materials…

Concepts important to cognitive development in children can be classified according to several levels. At level 1, concepts are equivalent in structural complexity to binary relations and univariate functions. At level 2, concepts are equivalent to compositions of binary relations, binary operations, and bivariate functions. At level 3, concepts…

The development of a child's social awareness is reflected in, and in part accomplished through, requests. Requests for action and information--such as the assistance of another, typically older person--require an important set of linguistic and social skills. Re-requests become necessary when the initial request is ignored or not adequately…

A child care worker presents her views on what and what not to do in caring for children in institutions. The role of the worker is discussed, along with certain characteristic traits. (EK)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a self-concept enhancement program on 4-year olds who attend nursery school. (Author)

Discussed the creative movement program in which children participate at the Sacred Heart Open School in Tucson, Arizona. (Author/RK)

In the last 20 years the age of menarche has dropped from 13.5 years in 1950 to a predicted mean age of 11.5 for 1970. Urges that we address the social and physical consequences of the physiological revolution on contemporary America and suggests a potential role for schools to ameliorate the problem. Among the suggestions: child rearing should be…

Author argued that children can catch up on basic cognitive skills surprisingly late and calls for changes in educational practice to help them do it. (Editor/RK)

Discussed a new educational concept presented at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. (RK)

In this study of the visual placing response (an extension of the paws or arms on approach to a visual surface), infants extended their arms almost as much to a gray surface as to a patterned one. (Author/CS)

In this essay I shall argue that art is an important aspect in the education of the child because it allows him to learn something about the essential nature of materials while developing manipulative skills and aesthetic sensibility to his environment. (Author)

Differential fixation to novel stimuli was obtained from 4-month-old infants to test the discrepancy hypothesis, which predicts a curvilinear relationship between degree of discrepancy and attention. (ST)