Describes the development, practices, and objectives of a project which has, over three years, focused on the support bilingual children may receive from their nursery as they learn English. (MP)

Argues that in a pluralistic society such as England, an openness to ethnic minorities' religious values is necessary in order to foster good education and good development as well as a general growth of harmony in equality and justice. This can be achieved through changes in school curricula and teacher training. (MP)

Provides historical overview of the Afro-Caribbean presence in Britain as background for understanding the present state of race relations in Britain. (MP)

Discusses issues involving community education, giving special reference to the multiracial/cultural situation in British society and describing concomitant problems. (MP)

Briefly discusses the nature, objectives, and content of the multicultural curriculum in England. (MP)

Discusses racism in education from the viewpoint of its being a problem of Whites, exploring the effects of racism on White people and offering a training program to help White teachers develop antiracist strategies for application within educational settings. (MP)

Outlines work suggesting that research into children's learning of linguistic structure has progressed little in the last decade or so, identifying attitudinal and methodological difficulties, and suggesting a comparative method for identifying learning strategies as developed by individual children. (MP)

Reviews some of the principal phenomena that have been found to characterize the acquisition of word meaning during the first two years of life, and proposes a theoretical framework which can be used to interpret these phenomena. (MP)

Four mothers and their six-month-old infants were video-taped in their homes during the six- to eight-month period of the infants' lives in order to investigate the relationship between mother-infant vocal patterns and the emotional expression. Overall, findings suggested that emotional expression provides important cues around which mothers and…

Peer social interaction in the first year of life (8-10 months) was examined with regard to (1) the content of the interaction and (2) the effects of partner familiarity on the interaction. Results show that familiarization positively affects peer social interactions. (Author/MP)

Summarizes results from a study designed to determine which exchanges occur is adult-child conversation, concluding that adult-speech serves not only as information source for infants but also as motivational source for languages development. (MP)

Summarizes findings from a study undertaken to investigate the relationships between child's language development and learning ability and suggests some implications of those findings for those concerned with the care and early education of children. (MP)

Describes use of participant observation in a preschool setting, reporting findings on children's sociodramatic play, roles children assign adults, children's perceptions of teacher-directed organization and activities, children's spontaneous conversations, and individual learning differences and styles. Points out implications of such…

Describes a weight reduction and control program for obese retarded preschool children involving parent leaders and incorporating social and tangible rewards. Discusses techniques children practice daily for a total of 15 weeks. (RH)

Compares the interactions of teenage mothers and their infants with those of a group of older mothers and their infants. Data were gathered on the frequency and quality of mother/infant interaction in the laboratory and in the home, and effects of research intervention were explored. (RH)