This bulletin, which focuses on the role of physical education in the development of children, contains 12 articles. The topics of the articles include a) movement, b) characteristics and examples of good physical education programs, c) safety education, and d) the learning environment. The booklet also includes a selected bibliography on…

Presented are 46 brief statements by members of the Institute of Defectology in the Soviet Union on the psychologies of mentally retarded children, children with cerebral insufficiency, blind and partially seeing children, deaf and hard of hearing children, and speech or language handicapped children. Examples of the 14 statements concerned with…

This book focuses on the affective dimensions of learning situations and discusses the need for dealing with the emotional aspects that are a part of every cognitive learning experience. Part 1 presents a model that allows systematically and predictably for the development of the whole child, taking account of readiness-awareness level and…

This is a bilingual book about language development of the young child. It is written for parents, with the objective of providing them with skills to help their children learn to talk. Emphasis is on maintaining communication between parent and child from infancy in a non-pressured, accepting, and positive environment. Developmental (normative)…

This document is a collection of nine essays by different authors. The emphasis of all the essays is on individualized instruction for children and the teacher's role in it. The following essays are included: a) "Personalized Teaching and Individualized Learning"; b) "The Changing Role of the Teacher"; c) "Organization for Individual Work"; d)…

This document is a description of Project HOPE (Health and Optimum Physical Education) directed at teachers. The ultimate goals of this project are that: (a) every child will be taught to move within his own capability and will never be embarrassed because he is not as good as somebody else; (b) every child will feel good about himself because he…

This document discusses the nature and objective of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program on Young Children (IDPYC), which is designed to prepare leaders to function as "interface" (or, catalysts) in settings that concern young children. This program trains them to attain the following characteristics: (a) a sound background and knowledge base in…

An annotated bibliography of child development literature from 1950-1969 is presented. Emphasis is on studies yielding data on normal child development for the 3-18 age range. In general, only studies with relatively large samples (30 or more) were included. Each summary describes the purpose of the research, sample size and characteristics,…

This paper discusses some of the issues (beyond the methodological considerations) involved in a study of children's ideas about death and how these ideas relate to their cognitive development. The three aspects discussed are (1) problems involved in getting permission from the dissertation research committee, the school principal and camp…

Sixteen white home-reared babies (eight boys - eight girls) ranging in age from six months to two years were studied during home visits. Piaget's sensory-motor development theory of imitation was employed, and his special thesis of the hierarchical sequence was tested. The examiner proposed four critieria for assessing the development of imitation…

This book, which concerns the teaching of English, is composed of two parts. Part One--The Imaginative Faculty contains the following chapters: 1. "The First Year: The Rediscovery of the Familiar"; 2. "The Second and Third Years: The Growth of Consciousness"; 3. "The Final Stage: Imagination and Morality"; and 4. "The Dramatic Experience." Part…

This book is based upon the theory that we use language as a means of organizing a representation of the world--each for himself--and that the representation so created constitutes the world we operate in, the basis of all the predictions by which we set the course of our lives. Chapter 1 discusses this theory; Chapter 2 relates what is relevant…

Ways to increase the involvement of parents in child development programs are presented in this training manual. The sections of the manual are as follows: I. Parent Involvement; II. How Parents Can Participate; III. Making Participation Meaningful; IV. What the Parent Groups Do; V. The Parent Sub-Committee; VI. What Would the Parents Be…

Four types of classrooms are described in relation to individual child development, particularly the learning aspect of development. The first type of classroom is the normative grade school, which operates on the premise that people should be essentially alike rather than different. The second classroom is the behavioral competency school, which…

A speech concerning legislation regarding child care is presented. Focus is on (1) legislation that currently is under consideration and its relation to earlier bills, (2) innovations in activities of the Office of Child Development for Fiscal 1973, and (3) ways in which developmental psychologists could play a more central and productive role in…