The best way to get started in conducting measurement research in creative drama is to understand creative drama as fully as possible in order to discover significant issues that need the kind of clarification that measurement research can provide. A few basic research questions that will help people focus on particular projects in creative drama…

Whereas Maria Montessori believes that humans are born with a divine animating spirit, John Dewey believes that no such spirit exists, and that it is society which shapes the child. Their definitions of education reflect this difference. For Montessori, education is a natural process that develops spontaneously in the human being, and formal…

Part of a 10 booklet series on talented and gifted education, the booklet discusses the parenting of gifted and talented children. Some myths and realities about giftedness are examined, along with differences and similarities between gifted and other children. The nurturance and broadening of children who are gifted intellectually, in the visual…

Delegates to the Canadian planning meeting of the International Year of the Child showed most interest in attending workshops on the topic of children in the international context (rather than in a single country context) and least interest in the topic of research. These choices may reflect a realization that (1) if we are to understand our own…

AN ATTEMPT TO ASSESS STIMULUS CONDITIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE INFANT IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND THE IMPACT OF THESE STIMULI ON HIS ADAPTIVE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS WAS PRESENTED. INFANTS WERE OBSERVED IN FOUR CHILD-REARING ENVIRONMENTS--RESIDENTIAL, KIBBUTZ, SINGLE-CHILD FAMILY, AND MULTIPLE-CHILD FAMILY. UNDER THEORETICAL ORIENTATION, THESE…

GOALS WERE DEVELOPED TO BE CARRIED OUT OVER A 5-YEAR PERIOD. FIRST, CHILDREN WOULD BE EVALUATED IN THE SPRING, PRIOR TO SCHOOL ENTRY IN THE FALL, AND A PREDICTION OF THEIR ABILITY TO COPE WITH SCHOOL WOULD BE MADE. THE STAFF WOULD MAKE APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS DESIGNED TO HELP THE CHILD DURING THE EARLY SCHOOL YEARS, EFFECTIVENESS WOULD BE…

THIS STUDY WAS AN ATTEMPT TO REMEDY IN PART THE PRESENT DEFICIENCIES IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL. A SAMPLE OF 45-70 KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WERE STUDIED IN A TWO-PHASE PROGRAM. THE FIRST 2-YEAR PHASE WAS DEVOTED TO EXPERIMENTING WITH METHODS OF ASSESSING LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR AND WITH SPECIFIC EXPERIMENTAL…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE MOTIVATIONAL CONDITIONS ON SELECTED ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION AND CONCEPT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OF SLOW LEARNING, AVERAGE, AND BRIGHT CHILDREN. THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE FOURTH-GRADE CHILDREN IN A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS ADMINISTERED THE TEST OF EDUCATIONAL ABILITY. CHILDREN…

THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR SECTION OF A CHAPTER PREPARED FOR "THE MANUAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY," P.H. MUSSEN, EDITOR, IN PREPARATION. IT IS AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR WRITTEN FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PRESENTS SOME OF THE MAJOR IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN MODERN LINGUISTIC THEORY, ALONG WITH CERTAIN OF THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL…

USING THE METHODOLOGY DEVISED BY JEAN BERKO (1958) TO TEST AMERICAN CHILDREN ON THEIR INTERNALIZATION OF ENGLISH GRAMMATICAL RULES, 92 MEXICAN CHILDREN OF CIUDAD GUZMAN, JALISCO, WERE TESTED TO DETERMINE THEIR INTERNALIZATION OF SPANISH GRAMMAR. THE CHILDREN WERE FROM THE LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASS, AS WERE THE 18 ADULTS WHO TOOK THE SAME TEST TO…

DEFECTS IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE PERSONALITY CAN DEVELOP IN CHILDREN. TO KEEP HIS SPIRIT NOURISHED, THE CHILD NEEDS AFFECTION, FRIENDSHIP, FREEDOM, FAITH, AND CHALLENGE FROM HIS PARENTS. SELF-RESPECT IS ANOTHER QUALITY WHICH SHOULD BE DEVELOPED IN CHILDREN AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THEIR GOOD MENTAL HEALTH. PROVIDING WORK EXPERIENCES AROUND THE…

The paper discusses research and research applications regarding the exceptional child and the physical environment, and presents ways in which space can have an impact on learning and development. An argument is made for the creation of research based design principles based on knowledge of the relations between the physical environment and the…

The paper discusses the assessment of infant adaptive behavior and its relationship to the adaptive behavior of the mother, focusing on the discovery of disruption and asynchrony in early mother-infant interaction. The development of the earliest patterns of interaction between mother and infant is discussed, along with the relationship between…

Despite external changes such as those of magnitudes, the functional properties of the visual system also improve with increased age. According to Jean Piaget's centration/decentration theory, the process of perceptual development might continue until adulthood and even after. However, perceptual development should not be understood in all of its…

This paper draws together briefly theories and knowledge from research in morphology and cognitive psychology, as well as some hypothetical information from traditional psychiatry, to show the ramifications of play in children's development. Play is defined as any of a wide variety of behaviors through which an individual attempts to discover what…