TWO GROUPS OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN FROM CONTRASTING SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS WERE STUDIED TO EXPLORE WHAT EFFECT THEIR BACKGROUND WOULD HAVE ON THEIR ARITHMETIC CONCEPTS. THE FIRST GROUP FROM A LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) AREA WAS COMPOSED OF 32 NEGRO, 14 CAUCASIAN, AND THREE ORIENTAL CHILDREN OF BOTH SEXES, AND THE CONTRASTING HIGH SES GROUP HAD…

THE PROCESSES OF THOUGHT, OF CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, AND OF VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY INTERRELATED. COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS DEPENDS UPON THE ABILITY TO ASSOCIATE WRITTEN AND VERBAL SYMBOLS WITH THE REFERENTS THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC PROCESS OF REORGANIZING AND INTEGRATING OLD AND NEW CONCEPTS. THE ABILITY TO ASSOCIATE, IN TURN, DEPENDS UPON…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS MATERIAL ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY. APPROXIMATELY 50 UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO DOCUMENTS DATING FROM 1961 TO 1966. JOURNALS, BOOKS, AND REPORT MATERIALS ARE LISTED. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) IDENTIFICATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND MEASUREMENT OF CREATIVITY, (2) PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CREATIVITY, (3)…

This discussion of the term "style" as it relates to the arts points to the need for reform in the terminology and the conceptual system of the drama profession. The paper first lists the basic tasks of conceptual and terminological reform and then outlines the steps necessary in reforming a particular term. These procedures are applied to a…

The Council of Chief State School Officers defines career education as "essentially an instructional strategy, aimed at improving educational outcomes by relating teaching and learning activities to the concept of career development. Career education extends the academic world to the world of work. In scope, career education encompasses…

This paper presents a brief review of several key differences of opinion concerning purposes and conceptualizations of career education. A major difference of opinion exists concerning the emphasis of career education--economic man or total man. Differing points of view are also expressed in answer to the question, "Is career education all of…

This paper explores some problems of adaptation of curriculum materials that need to be faced by product developers and teacher trainers. It focuses on: a) developing teacher skill in purposeful variation, b) promoting adaptation of materials, and c) transforming available products. First, the Responsive Teaching project, designed to instruct…

This paper proceeds from the assumption that (1) thinking about values is necessary and critical for people interested in curriculum; (2) curriculum designs are value-oriented statements; (3) in approaching curriculum thinking from an interest in values, it is important to identify clearly the unit of interest and its relationship to other units…

The major assumption in this paper is that in order to improve social studies education, concepts and terminology must be clear and rigorous. Addressing three major points, the monograph discusses the types of situations calling for conceptual analysis, the definition of conceptual analysis, and aids for those interested in conceptual analysis.…

The author conveys a sense of the term "health" as connoting not a passive state of freedom from disease, but an active condition of being, of growth, development, and evolution. (Author/MJB)

Comparisons were made between 27 normal and 27 brain damaged children (5-8 years old) on a variety of concept formation tasks from the Reitan-Indiana Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children. (CL)

Investigated whether preschool children who evidence a correct understanding of the dimensional adjectives big and little are capable of segmenting a physical continuum into regions described by those adjectives and combinations of adjectives and modifiers. (Author/JMB)

An explication of the classical approach versus the phenomenological approach to the issue of andragogy, viewed in the above approaches as "an illusion which represents more jargon in the lexicon of educationese" (classical) or as "a significant contribution to philosophical discourse about adult education" (phenomenological).

Based on a theory of rational numbers which sees the rational numbers construct of a person as potentially built on a number of subconstructs, this study explored the view of rational numbers as operators. Significant changes in performance level and quality appeared between ages 11 and 12 and 12 and 13. (JC)

Reports a study which examines children's understanding of the terms "inside" and "around" and the concepts they represent. (JMB)