The psychological, educational, and philosophical significance of love and death is discussed. Liberal education and the philosophy in which it is rooted must be committed to the exploration of the primary experiences of human beings. (Author/LBH)

This study investigated the theoretical concept of attachments to parents as having pervasive influence on psychological adaptation into young adulthood. Specifically, traditional-age college students' perceptions of separate attachments to their mothers and fathers were related to students' elf-reported explanatory style and empathy. Using a…

The focus of these four issues of a quarterly journal on gifted children is on the total child, gifted girls, asynchrony, and teaching teachers. Each issue also includes columns on parents, the Internet, home schooling, software reviews, and recommended books. Major articles include the following: "A Circle of Friends: The Nature and Nurture of…

The concept of critical or sensitive periods in child development provides an example around which to organize discussion of what is known and not known about brain development and the implications of brain science on early childhood policy and practice. This book reviews the early history of critical periods and evidence for their existence in…

The 21st century promises to make very different demands on our children and schools in a knowledge-based society. A slow but dynamic shift has been occurring in the Singapore educational system toward a learning nation and thinking school ethos. In the midst of this change, children will need to acquire a new set of skills. They will need to be…

This booklet provides parents, librarians, child care workers, and teachers with tools for assisting children in understanding their experiences. The books listed in the chart and described in the approximately 700-item annotated bibliography were chosen for content helpful to children in dealing with the concepts and behaviors which are part of…

The aim was to determine whether attendance at a coeducational or single-sex school was associated signigicantly with happiness of marriage. (Author)

Author provides a lucid and informative insight into the problems of today's youth and the hope they must generate. (RK)

Since the experiences discussed by the author are commonly viewed as therapeutic rather than educational, he develops a rationale for conceiving of them in educational terms. (Author/CB)

This paper is concrned with the backgrounds and developmental histories of a group of approximately 250 volunteer subjects who identify themselves with the hippie community of San Francisco. (Authors)

Examines some of the failings of educational television and discusses the Television Guidelines for Early Childhood Education, which suggest directions for furure development. (MM)

Children kept in temporary" foster care for long periods even though there is no possibility of return to the natural parents are deprived of their chance for normal developmental growth. This study examines factors involved in the problem. (AJ)

This study demonstrates the general developmental progression of the increased internalization of the conditions of emotional arousal. Females show a tendency to be more dependent than males on external arousal cues. (Authors)

Warns that until schools give up their zeal for control, they will continue to wring the emotional life out of many children who will end up untouched by their involvement in school, life, or interpersonal relationships. (Author)