Describes an elementary school art program involving mainstreaming, with a framework which emphasizes the development of a positive self-concept in all children. (CM)

Discusses the potential impact of Proposition 13 on children, families and early childhood teachers and suggests strategies for counteracting the potential effects of the amendment. (CM)

Describes a graduate seminar for in-service elementary school teachers which provided opportunities for meeting and observing peer teachers and deliberating on their teaching. (CM)

This article addressed to parents indetifies various causes of stress in young children, and delineates methods which can be used to help children cope with stress. (CM)

Describes the circumstances which provoked creative expression in writing by a seven-year-old in an English primary school, and discusses the school's flexible, humanistic environment. (BR)

Explains the British Infant School approach to the teaching of reading and writing, in which reading flows directly from the children's writing-which, in turn, is stimulated by virtually every aspect of the school program. Includes samples of the children's writing. (BR)

Presents brief case histories of two hospitalized children who participated in a recreational program designed to provide art and creative writing experiences in the pediatric wards. Illustrations of the children's writing, art and conversation are included. (BR)

Describes the oral history project (based on the Foxfire model) of a fourth grade class in Louisiana. (BR)

Describes cultural awareness projects in two schools on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. (BR)

Presents results from interviews with kindergarten children about their television program preferences and their understanding of the news, and reactions from the teachers of these children. Also discusses some effects of violence in television programming and comments on how parents and teachers can counter these effects. (BR)

Describes the aesthetic environments of children's care settings in China, Hong Kong and Japan. (BR)

This cross-cultural analysis examines three child rearing conditions which affect the development of prosocial behavior in children. (CM)

Provides specific teaching suggestions for fostering the development of social and political awareness in young children through a social studies program. (CM)

Advocates the sensitization of teachers to the problem (isolation of children with non-Christian backgrounds) that may arise through the observance of religious holidays in the public school classroom. (CM)

Presents a brief description of community projects undertaken by graduate students of early childbood at West Georgia College, Carrolton, Ga. (CM)