Investigates the relationship between socioeconomic status and readiness for school among 49 predominantly middle-class four- to six-year-old children enrolled in kindergarten at the Florida State University Developmental Research School. Of the variables investigated (father's education, mother's education, and family income), only father's…

Elaborates the thesis that children's behavior is the language of their emotional life and that teachers' responses to children's behavior foster or stunt children's growth. Gives particular attention to the problem of children's provoking feelings in the teacher that the teacher does not want to acknowledge and to parents' influence on children's…

Discusses a continuum of approaches to discipline that range from those granting the child maximum freedom or authority to those that emphasize teacher control over children's behavior. (RH)

Reports the subjective impressions of a professor emeritus from England concerning race relations and acceptance of ethnicity in the United States. Briefly focuses on issues concerning bilingual and community education. (RH)

Points out controversial aspects of Piagetian theory and indicates ways subsequent articles in the special issue address or are related to those concerns. (RH)

Reviews some recent studies of visual perspective taking which preserve many features of the Piagetian three-mountain task, discusses the generality and particularity of children's perspective-taking abilities, and briefly comments on the relationship between perspective taking and social experience. (RH)

Reviews the Piagetian description of the stages of development of children's drawings, points out the influence of task demands on drawing performance, and asserts need for a new theory. An alternative framework is discussed and recent research illustrating the alternate theory and methodology is reviewed. (Author/RH)

Explores the relationship between Piaget's work on awareness and aspects of language development, pointing out continuities and discontinuities between the two areas of development. (Author/RH)

Indicates types of decisions required for establishing a conceptual model for preschool programing and points out functions of articulated conceptual systems in program analysis. Issues concerning development are discussed, including assimilation/accommodation, the child and the environment, and change in behavior patterns. General principles,…

Discusses three problems preschool teachers should consider when aiming to facilitate children's mathematical activity: (1) How may young children relate to the necessarily abstract basis of mathematics? (2) When is a child's activity mathematical? (3) How may "mathematical" language, concepts, and experiences be appropriately defined? (RH)

Argues that advances in research on child development and learning provide a base for improving the nurturance of all children. Topics discussed include the craft of parenting; parenting functions; the educational role of the family; preparation, education, and support for parenthood; and child development research and implications for…

Describes a community education project that aims to (1) make available to parents of young children stimulating toys, books, and other materials at a reasonable price; (2) stimulate discussion of educational issues relevant to parents; and (3) establish new kinds of links between parents and the schools and nurseries attended by their children.…

Subjects in an experimental group received a 30-minute instructional presentation consisting of a filmstrip about a handicapped child, descriptions of spasticity and flaccidity, and role play with five orthopedic appliances. In comparison with control group subjects, experimental group members demonstrated an increased awareness of the appliances…

A study was conducted (1) to develop an easily and efficiently administered diagnostic instrument for measuring young children's preferences for play materials and (2) to establish the reliability of the instrument. A Piagetian theoretical framework was employed in the construction of the Play-Materials Preference Inventory for preschool children.…

Discusses the need for day care for school-age children, indicates what other countries have done to meet after-school day care needs, describes program implementation efforts in the United States, and points out benefits of extended day programs. (RH)