Illustrates how concepts such as "authority,""cause and effect" and "culture" can be taught to primary children, and how pupils can be taught to think more rigorously. (Editor/RK)

The theoretical issue was whether a general motivation towards effectiveness or competence could be observed in the free activity of pre-school children. Implications of the concept of effectiveness-motivation were discussed. (Author/RK)

Makes a preliminary statement about "pastoral care" as a concept, structure and process in order to open the way for a critical theoretical and empirical appraisal of this phenpmenon. (Author/RK)

Some causes for concern in connection with the accelerating use of transactional analysis in industrial and business organizations are examined, with suggestions for partial solution of its problems. (MF)

The various meanings of management development are presented in the form of a working hypothesis, concluding that management development highlights the conflict between ideals of enterprise and individual development and that the relationship between the individual and his organization should be reconceptualized. (MF)

Conceptual system as a cognitive-developmental variable in personality has been assumed to relate to different cognitions of self and others and of interpersonal relations at each developmental stage. The assumed relationship between conceptual system and some personality variables was studied in a group of students. (Editor)

Original games, like traditional games, can be an integral part of the total games curriculum for children and are a continuation of the progression in skill development and conception of the rules governing formally organized sports. (JD)

Reports a three year panel study of El Salvadoran junior high school students and the relationship of early mass media use to subsequent change in social expectations. (MH)

The progressive inflection "-ing" appears to be the earliest verb inflection acquired by children learning English as their first language. Explanations are made on why the progressive is rarely, if ever, overgeneralized to inappropriate forms. (SW)

The Tactile Test of Basic Concepts (TTBC), a tactile analog to the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC), was field tested with 75 blind students (kindergarten to grade 2) and the scores compared with those of sighted Ss used in the standardization sample for the BTBC. (Author/IM)

In this article the stages of learning how to read are outlined, and successful methods of teaching reading are described. (JD)

Educators must expand their conception of listening and speaking to include nonverbal components of oral communication and develop strategies to use this expanded concept in developing the listening and speaking skills of their pupils. (MJB)

Argues that the widespread use of print script in schools should be abandoned. (Editor)

Racial attitudes of 5- and 8-year-old children were measured before and after the children were administered a negative reinforcement procedure which changed their evaluations of color concepts. Earlier findings with preschool children were replicated, and a larger change in racial attitude scores was obtained. (GO)

Notes that Markle's (April 1975 issue of this journal) summary of the current state of research regarding concept teaching conveys a major misconception and omits a major conception. (Author/AM)