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Pasi, Raymond J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
School programs in social and emotional education seek to increase student self-awareness, help students deal with their emotions and interpersonal relationships, and improve social decision-making abilities. A schoolwide social-education program at a Providence, Rhode Island, academy focuses on overall school climate, specially designed events…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving
Johnson, Sally; Franke, Sue – Children and Families, 1997
Describes Hug Therapy as used at the Allegheny County Head Start centers in Pennsylvania. Discusses the value of appropriate touch for healthy physical and emotional development. Addresses barriers to therapeutic touching and benefits to children and parents. (KB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Parent Child Relationship
Cusack, Lynne – Parenting, 1998
Discusses the role of "security" or "transition" objects, such as a blanket or stuffed toy, in children's development of self-comfort and autonomy. Notes the influence of parents in the child-object relationship, and discusses children's responses to losing a security object, and the developmental point at which a child will…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Childhood Needs, Children, Developmental Stages
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Uttermohlen, T. L. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1997
The author, born with a severe visual impairment, addresses the tendency of adolescents with visual impairments to try to hide the disability and "pass" as unimpaired with their peers. It is suggested that these adolescents be helped to find a comfortable balance between taking excessive risks and allowing visual impairment or blindness to be an…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Blindness, Emotional Development
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Christian, Linda Garris – Young Children, 1997
Examines young children's responses to and understanding of death. Discusses children's concepts of death; how their grief process differs from that of adults; stages of grief; factors affecting grief responses; acceptance of children's grief response; support for grieving children, especially funeral services and counseling; and preparing and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bereavement, Cognitive Development, Counseling
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Elias, Maurice J.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1997
Addresses attitudinal and logistical roadblocks to launching social and emotional learning programs. Debunks ideas that such programs are either faddish, ineffective, "New-Age," or detractions from academic learning. Stresses conceptual origins in the work of Daniel Goleman, Howard Gardner, and Robert Sylwester. Notes educators must work…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Guidelines
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Milone, Michael – Reading Online, 2002
Interviews Carol Wilson, a teacher of gifted students at Sandpiper Elementary School in Sunrise, Florida. Explains that in Carol's classroom, technology extends the instruction of literacy to include not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also what might be called emotional literacy. Notes that she involves her students in a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Education, Emotional Development, Interviews
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Barnett, Lynn A. – Journal of Leisure Research, 1990
This article summarizes proposed benefits of children's play and critically reviews the empirical evidence which supports or refutes the explanatory model. It concludes with suggestions for future research to explicate more fully the developmental benefits of play for the child. (JD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
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Weissglass, Julian – Educational Forum, 1990
Constructivist listening is a tool for empowerment, community building, and educational change. It enables teachers and principals to think of themselves and their schools as centers for learning and change rather than as the target of change efforts for others. It enables people to assume responsibility for their actions and feelings. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dupont, Henry – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1989
Theory and research on children's emotional development are reviewed, and it is suggested that in mainstreaming children with disabilities, everything possible should be done to make the mainstream a hospitable environment for them, beginning with teacher recognition of responsibility for the classroom's socio-emotional climate. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Developmental Stages, Disabilities
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Silverman, Linda Kreger – Roeper Review, 1994
This article demonstrates that the cognitive complexity and personality traits of gifted children create unique experiences and awarenesses that separate them from others. A central feature of children's gifted experience is their moral sensitivity and the asynchronous development of their inner world, which need to be understood and nurtured.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Gifted
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Denham, Susanne A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Investigated contributions to individual differences in preschoolers' identification of basic emotional expressions and situations, emotion language, and self-generated causes for basic emotions. The contribution of socialization predictors to emotion understanding was moderated by gender only for negative emotional responsiveness, and children…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response, Mothers
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Freeman, Joan – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1994
This study comparing 70 gifted children (ages 5-14) with 2 control groups revealed that emotional problems were not the result of gifted ability per se but of other disturbing matters such as others' expectations or family conflict. Academic underachievement was related to self-concept; gifted children's greater sensitivity was usually…
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Emotional Problems
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Toomey, Rosemary; Schuldberg, David – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1995
The perception of emotions from facial expression was studied with 68 schizotypal individuals and a control group (n=40). The results did not support the hypotheses that the schizotypal group would display more restricted similarity range in judging emotions, judge emotions as less pleasant, and display less accuracy in labelling emotions. (SW)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Facial Expressions, Perception
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Monsour, Michael; And Others – Sex Roles, 1994
Eighty-six female and 52 male college students completed surveys about sexual, emotional-bond, audience, and equality challenges present in their cross-sex friendships. Results indicate that these challenges do exist but that they are not perceived as salient for the majority. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Emotional Development, Females, Higher Education
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