Reasons for the relative lack of literature dealing with spatial concepts of low-vision children are suggested, and two assumptions are seen as invalid: (1) that knowledge of spatial concepts is not important for persons with low vision and (2) that children with low vision have adequate knowledge of spatial concepts. (CL)

A total of 12 three, four, five, seven, and nine year olds and 12 adult control subjects were asked 20 questions about two exemplars of each of 16 categories of animate beings and inanimate objects. Children's responses indicated that animism is not a pervasive phenomenon and does not appear to be the most primitive mode of conceptualization.…

Discusses language as the essential key to the social construction of reality, that is, as a factor which has the power to both create and transform social realities. Explores the linguistic implications for transformations in language usage as applied to gender-role and the cultural ideal of equality. (SED)

Examines the development of a general event representation and the relationship between general and specific event memories among kindergarten children who were interviewed about the school-day routine four times during the first three months of school. (Author/RH)

Considers the use of picture-word and bilingualism research together to look for parallels at both the theoretical and empirical levels. Describes some of the criteria that have been used in both fields to infer common or separate codes and points out how conclusions based on the various criteria proposed can differ. (EKN)

Collections, the referents of collective nouns, differ from classes in how membership can be determined, part-whole relationships, internal structure, and the nature of the higher order units they form. Three experiments dealt with these differences as related to the concept formation of primary school children. (BW)

Deals with the study of movements and proposes a specifically rhetorical definition of movements that combines elements of other definitions with original theoretical extension. (MH)

This study investigated children's knowledge of division and its relationship to their teacher's conceptual understanding of division following Professional Development. A paper and pencil test was administered to 47 year 7 students and 2 teachers over 2 phases. Following the testing, six students and the teacher from each phase were interviewed.…

This paper explores the development of students' knowledge of mathematical procedures. Students' tendency to develop rote knowledge of procedures has been widely commented on. I postulate an alternative, more "intelligent" endpoint for the development of procedural knowledge, where students choose to deviate from solving patterns on…

We distinguish two conceptions of sample and sampling that emerged in the context of a teaching experiment conducted in a high school statistics class. In one conception "sample as a quasi-proportional, small-scale version of the population" is the encompassing image. This conception entails images of repeating the sampling process and…

Critically analyzes a definition of creativity and concludes that the concept of creativity is illusive and undefinable. (JR)

Man is beginning to realize his attempts to bring the environment into conformity, his technology-adoring ethic of changing the world and his improving it for human benefit are often leading to distress and disaster. Called for is a reverence for life, man placed within nature as an integral part of it. (BL)