A total of 84 Israeli middle- and upper-middle-class nursery school, second and fifth grade children were subjects for a study investigating parallel shifts in dimensional salience and the dominance of these dimensions as organizing principles in memory. (MS)

As a child develops, perceptions of the world and idea concepts change, but creative expression and innovative thinking can be encouraged by the teacher at each stage of the child's development. (JD)

Pigeons learned discrimination rapidly and responded differentially to pictures seen for the first time. The essential feature of a natural discrimination--which is the ability to cope with natural ranges of variation--was approached and earlier experimental results were extended using other classes of stimuli. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine what effect, if any, a color's hue or value has on the elementary school child's perception of apparent weight. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need for a redefinition of the post-World War II concept of international development due to the world's radical transformation during the 1970's. Topics covered are the search for new development models, sovereignty and self-reliance in newly independent nations, educational reconstruction, and women as agents of development. (SH)

Provides an overview of nonformal education. Discusses the characteristics of nonformal education as well as its misconceptions, limitations and prospects. (Editor/RK)

Self concept development in the child and the child's later ability to cope with life stress are inextricably related. Defines self concept and its three components: perceptual, conceptual, and attitudinal. Discusses the teacher's role in developing the student's self concept. (Author/RK)

Described is a social studies lesson plan which investigates colonialism in Africa by focusing on individual attitudes toward the colonial experience. Maps, questions, teaching suggestions, and student materials are provided. (Author/DB)

Reports on a survey to determine the need for industrial arts programs to focus instruction on the interface between technological developments and their impact on the natural environment. (Editor)

Presents one way to approach the problem of extracting key concepts from social studies reading materials through the use of concept-formation study guides; includes an example of a study guide for helping fourth or fifth grade children in concept formation. (JM)

Aims to quantify the models that 13- and 14 year-old students hold about the causes of the greenhouse effect and ozone layer depletion. Assesses the prevalence of those ideas that link the two phenomena. Twice as many students think that holes in the ozone layer cause the greenhouse effect than think the greenhouse effect causes ozone depletion.…

Argues that current testing of student understanding provides insufficient information to a researcher investigating strategies for changing students' explanatory ideas. Outlines a new test based on recent work in child development. (DDR)

Describes a study that investigated the role of a design context for developing children's understanding of science as the construction and revision of models. Results indicate that as early as the first grade, children's model-evaluation skills may be quite amenable to development. (DDR)

In everyday teaching, the mathematical meaning of new knowledge is frequently devalued during ritualized formats of communication and replaced by social conventions. Specific aspects of the problem of meaning development were investigated in two second-grade teaching cases. These were used to develop decisive requirements for maintenance of an…

Presents a language-awareness (LA) perspective on the concept of autonomy in second-language learning. The article distinguishes between two kinds of LA, examines child development and the role played by metalinguistic knowledge and literacy in first-language acquisition and examines the role played by both kinds of LA in second-language pedagogy.…