This book suggests the collaboration of community mental health centers with school systems since both are concerned with the healthy development of children's emotional lives and with learning. While school collaboration provides maximum opportunity for the center to fulfill more of its obligations to children with the most efficient use of…

This study examined variables related to problem-solving approaches of young children, using the theoretical framework provided by Zigler and his collaborators in their work on outerdirectedness. Four aspects of outerdirectedness were examined: developmental trends, effects of different types of reinforcement, effects of task difficulty, and pride…

This textbook on the physical and psychological development of children and adolescents is organized as follows: (1) the birth of the baby--physical appearance, basic life processes, behavioral capacities, prenatal development, prenatal environmental influences, biological inheritance, the birth process; (2) the infant--landmarks in the infant's…

This curriculum guide for child care workers is oriented toward fulfilling the Maryland State requirements for personnel in early childhood programs. A tabulated summary of qualifications is presented for personnel in early childhood programs as required by State Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Education, Employment and Social Services.…

The popular view among American psychologists has been that there is a continuity of psychological structure that is shaped by early experience. Data gathered in studies of Guatemalan villages imply serious discontinuities in the development of particular cognitive competencies and capacities for affect through preadolescence. The first two years…

Procedures for hiring teachers for preschool cooperatives are described. Resources for finding suitable teachers are city or State councils of parent cooperative preschools, newspapers, personal contact, and announcements at local meetings. A teacher application form should be sent to the applicant and returned before the personal interview.…

A study is presented which concentrates on the development of a cognitive style assessment instrument for 3- to 8-year-olds and on a series of studies designed to evaluate the role of stylistic and attentional processes in the development of various competencies in young children. This report incorporates a manual for users, a technical report on…

This volume, a companion to "Juniorplots," (see CS 200013) is designed to help teachers and librarians who are giving reading guidance and book talks to children between the ages of nine and fourteen. The 88 titles have been grouped according to the following developmental goals of childhood: (1) getting along in the family; (2) making friends;…

Infants in four age groups--three, six, nine and twelve months--were exposed to an experimental procedure designed to assess the extent to which such subjects were capable of discriminating between different orientations of the same form, and the extent to which they were capable of recognizing the identity between different orientations of the…

In a study of ways of preventing mental retardation in the population of a city slum, surveys were conducted. The major finding was that the variable of maternal intelligence was the best single predictor of the level and character of intellectual development in the offspring. The survey also showed that the lower the maternal IQ, the greater the…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of some 50 papers read at the first scientific session of a Soviet teacher training group. In the section on educational history and theory, papers were read reviewing the history and progress of public education and teacher education in the past 50 years in the Soviet…

A project conducted several years ago to develop informal mathematical learning experiences at kindergarten level is compared with the results of the work-book type (formal) program being used at that time. It is hypothesized that kindergarten pupils who study mathematical concepts in a planned, sequential, systematic, but non-workbook (informal)…

A total of 24 four-year-old children were posed with the paired-associate task of learning where 9 different animals lived, using apparatus designed for self instruction through picture matching. In Experiment I, children, who were taught to prompt themselves as needed by referring to a picture book, attained almost perfect scores, significantly…

Incidental learning in 8- and 12-year-old children was assessed with a variety of stimulus materials. Experiment 1 compared two types of material; (a) geometric figures, whose central and incidental components were shape and color, respectively and (b) stimuli whose components were separate pictures, as in the typical developmental study of this…

Research and development guidelines and projections for future child development centers are discussed. The first section describes the Child Development Center (CDC) concept and proposes a nationwide program. Other topics deal with child health and development, education for change, the community and the young child, public approaches and…