The author discusses the specific meaning of career development and its impact on guidance and counseling. While placing career development in its historical perspective, the author notes that it is imperative to examine what it means in today's terms and in future terms. (Editor)

Research was conducted among 58 5-6th grade gifted students in Seattle to test the following: their preferences for verbal vs. multi-sensory concept formation, whether non-verbal learners are primarily spatial in information processing, and the reliability of the Block Design subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) for…

Maintaining primary teachers should teach social studies and science, this article presents five conceptual teaching directions: identification of locational relationships to the rest of the world; sense of personal identity; understanding of relative time; identification of available resources; and realization of and respect for life. (JC)

Five arguments are presented as to the inappropriateness of Piaget's "stage of formal operations" as the final stage of cognitive development. (MJB)

Our sensuous natures struggle constantly against the forces and pressures of daily living. This discussion considers the consequences of that struggle upon those who make or teach art. (Author/RK)

Administration of a placement task to 66 preschool and grade school children revealed that the concept of higher/lower was understood earlier than above/below, which in turn was understood earlier than rising/falling. Within each pair of terms, the one referring to upness was comprehended earlier. (Author/JMB)

De-architecturization is art about architecture, a catalyst suggesting that public art does not have to respond to formalist doctrine; but rather, may evolve from the informational reservoirs of the city environment, where phenomenology and structure become the fabric of its existence. (Author/RK)

This study examined the effects of judgment-contingent feedback and prior knowledge of 3 rules on the conservation learning of 188 kindergarten children. (Author/JMB)

This study demonstrated that 3- and 4-year-old children could locate the next biggest member of a series when they were first directed to locate a terminal member of the array. (SB)

Maternal involvement effects on symbolic play development in toddlers were investigated. Sixteen mother-child dyads were observed at bimonthly intervals in a free-play setting during the period from 20 to 28 months of age. The complexity and length of play episodes increased when the mother was available to play with the child. (Author/BN)

Two thinking strategies, concept formation and dialectical reasoning, are discussed and illustrated. The need for schools of education to teach thinking skills is stated, and concepts which should be addressed are suggested. (Author/MT)

Responds to Biggs' article on the case presentation approach in clinical supervision, commending the author for drawing together two areas of psychology: case presentation in counselor supervision and cognitive development. Discusses three major contributions of, and three concerns with, Biggs' model. (NB)

A study is described which demonstrates that children create naive theories of science that are highly resistant to change, even when other concepts are seemingly understood. Ways of promoting conceptual change in children's understandings of how the world works are suggested. (MT)

States that the basic weakness of contemporary "Western-born" social science, as applied to the study of developing nations, is its ethnocentrism. Discusses the need to reinforce the indigenous character of the social sciences. Presents the INTERCOCTA Encyclopedia as a way of establishing a more indigenous social science within various…