Two hundred and seventy-one boys and girls randomly sampled from the fourth to eighth grades in an urban center and a rural town in Korea were administered an embedded figure test and a test of conceptual styles. The urban children showed higher field-independence scores and higher analytic conceptualization. The two cognitive variables were…

Compares accuracy of comprehension and communication of a set of relational concepts by urban black children, determines effects of age and previous exposure to concepts in this experimental situation on ability to communicate these concepts, and obtains descriptive data on styles and types of speaker instructions and listener questions.…

Multi-shaped blocks can be used to help young children develop many mathematical concepts and abilities. Several suggestions for using these blocks to create problem situations through which children develop concepts are offered. (SD)

Provides data indicating that development occurs in cycles, with behavioral competencies appearing and developing and then disappearing only to reappear again in a more complex form at a later age. Data on conservation and auditory-manual coordination in infancy are used to support this theory. (ED)

Interviews with adults who have been recently handicapped by injury or illness illustrate their participation in determining the imposition and the substance of a deviant label and role, through their active participation in the labeling process. (Author/AM)

Young children grow in an environment that is patterned in many different ways. These early experiences of pattern can be the basis for later understanding of the complex structures of mathematics. Teachers can structure experiences to encourage children to examine and analyze patterns, to discover symmetrical properties, to compare shapes and…

Environmental concepts provide the foundation upon which curriculum planners/developers construct environmental education programs. Research literature in environmental education was searched for lists of concepts, procedures used in validating concepts, and evidence of empirical investigations into the underlying structure of a set of concepts.…

According to J. Piaget, the child continually constructs or refines previous constructions in defining reality. Taking Piaget's lead, a study attempted to describe how children construct reality, with particular emphasis on the role of television in that construction. Four young children were observed and audio taped in viewing situations in their…

A primary goal of a teacher of regional geography should be to present the course as a study of the changing functions of world regions because the events of each day cause regions, whether political, economic, cultural, or physical, to be in constant flux. The nation-state has become in many ways out-moded as a source of analyzing the events of…

This text is a verbatim transcription of an interview with John Bates, a former math coordinator for Metro-Toronto schools, and the Director of Inner City Education, Toronto, Canada. (The interview was conducted by Thomas C. O'Brien under the auspices of the Teachers' Center Project of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.) Much of the…