The aim of this paper has been to produce a brief summary of the phenomenological perspective in sociology and to show how it has been, and might be, applied to the analysis of the school. (Author)

From a factor analysis of 33 variables on 83 first-grade children an animism factor, involving children's conceptions of life, was identified. Animism was found to be relatively independent of operational thought, Piagetian-type problem solving, and the ability to give causal explanations of physical phenomena. (Author)

Based in part on an M.A. thesis presented to the University of Illinois by Mr. Harris; deixis refers to those words which have a demonstrative or pointing function, e.g., the pronouns this'' or that''. (DD)

Problem examined was one of schooling's disengagement from the resources of the child's total contextual environment and the substitution of an artificial and all but sterile one. (Author)

Article deals with two issues concerned with accountability, first, the gathering of information about how instructionally effective a particular instructional system is, and the second deals with the use of that information in making instruction more effective. (Author/RK)

59 sixth grade boys and girls were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. E's were exposed to three creative thinking strategies for 360 minutes. Significant favourable effects of training were found on verbal fluency, flexibility and originality, but training by sex interaction effects only on verbal originality. (Author)

Techniques and suggestions for the learning of changed health behavior are presented. (BY)

Results clearly demonstrated the existence of perceptual sets in children under 4 years. The interpretation of findings suggests a process whereby the present method was successful in creating the mediating conditions necessary for a perceptual set. (Authors)

Author uses his expanded notation system for introducing children to mathematics and to enable them to successfully graduate to more complex math concepts. (Author/RK)

Study failed to yield evidence that performance in a systematic-concept task can be significantly facilitated, in comparison with rote-task performance, if more time is allowed for the operation of what Metzger has called systematic concept formation. (Authors)

Results demonstrate that the relationship between the structure of positive and negative instances within a learning series is also critical to concept learning when the concepts are presented in a nondimensioned way. (Authors/CB)

Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)

The concept of ego-ideal in relation to the development of character and personality is explored in some Western Nigerian children. (Author/RK)