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Download full textKreppner, Kurt – 1986
The interplay between an infant's development and its family context during the early years has been studied in a longitudinal investigation. A total of 16 normal families having 1 child between 1 and 3 years of age and a newborn child were observed monthly in unstructured situations in their homes over a period of 2 years. When the youngest child…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Birth Order, Child Development
Einsiedler, Wolfgang – 1985
Two studies are presented which investigate the influence of various toy structures on the frequency of individual fantasy play forms in 3- to 6-year-old children. In the first study, the effects of high-realistic/high-complexity and low-realistic/low-complexity toy structures were compared. There were significant main effects for the factor toy…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Communication Skills, Foreign Countries
Schneider, Klaus – 1987
A series of studies demonstrates that preschool, preoperational children deal effectively with tasks by anticipating the likelihood of their success and failure. They manifest these expectations in their behavior: in their decision time for making predictions, in the distributions of these predictions, and in their approach to particular tasks.…
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Expectation
Schneider, Klaus – 1987
An attempt was made to document the beginning of children's ability to make cognitive-emotional discriminations between skill-dependent outcomes and chance-dependent outcomes of performance on tasks. Children between the ages of 2 and 5 years were administered structurally similar achievement games and effect games. It was thought that as soon as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response
Schleicher, Klaus – 1982
Drawing on international studies concerning leisure attitudes, media consumption, and parental impact on the television viewing decisions of 4- to 14-year olds, this paper focuses on the importance of developing a coherent media education policy for pre- and primary-school children, parents, elementary school teachers, and television station…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationCouncil for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). Committee for General and Technical Education. – 1977
This working paper was prepared by the Council of Europe Programme Adviser for Pre-School Education for a symposium on "the integration of migrant children into pre-school education". The symposium aimed to identify and suggest appropriate pedagogical measures which should be taken to facilitate and improve the integration of migrant…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Role, Compensatory Education, Conferences
