Most presentations of mathematical ideas are suggested as being backwards from the way they evolved. Two alternatives are discussed, both emphasizing mathematical processes. (MP)

An argument is given for providing children with visual images for number concepts that they can internalize and which can aid understanding of numbers and their relations. (MP)

A study involving 95 foreign college students indicates that foreign media may be the most important influence on foreign students' perception formation toward United States political leaders and institutions. (GT)

Using the cognitive theory of Jean Piaget as a base, an overview of the conceptual development of space is presented as it occurs in sighted children to provide a framework for studying notions of space in blind children. (Author/PHR)

One hundred undergraduates were taught a concept task in which four experimental treatments and a control treatment were compared. Results indicated that presentation of examples is not sufficient: the relationships between these examples are critical for adequate instruction, even when the definitions remain the same. (Author/JEG)

Presents and reviews Piaget's recent work on equilibration. (BD)

Presents a science activity to help students to explore the concept of primary productivity by growing lawn grass in the classroom. (HM)

Children form concepts about death from a very early age; the appropriate time to talk about death is when it is part of the child's experience. (JD)

Investigates the effects of medium, task, and instruction on the child's representation of the human figure, the origins and course of development of the child's representational effort, and the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), intelligence, age, sex, and mental retardation on the representation of the human figure. (Author/RK)

Confronts the social-psychological problem of the relation between values and persons in everyday life. A model meeting the requirements for describing a clear conception of the individual in a social setting, with seven components, is described and used to illustrate what "having values" might mean. Outlines three brief applications. (Editor/RK)

A two-process theory of human information processing is proposed and applied to detection, search, and attention phenomena. (Editor)

Examines the appropriateness of Kohlberg's theory of moral development as a guide to educational practice. Suggests that the theory is open to a number of misinterpretations and misuses which must be borne in mind by those who wish to apply it in educational settings. (Author/RK)

Career education in Illinois since 1971 is briefly discussed. The author suggests that it is time to take a different direction in favor of a broader definition for career education to realize the full potential of the movement toward the accomplishment of educational reform. (TA)

"The fortunate correspondence between the dynamic patterns of what the dancer perceives through his kinesthetic nerves and what the spectator is told by his eyes is an example of isomorphism" says Rudolf Arnheim. Here the use of the television medium as interpreter of the dance is evaluated. (Author/RK)

Defines the role of dance in the university as a form of physical education and as a creative movement activity for all. (Editor/RK)