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Manosevitz, Martin; Prentice, Norman M. – 1976
This study examined children's beliefs in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy as well as the effects of parental encouragement or support of these fantasy characters upon the children's beliefs. Subjects were 60 children aged 4, 6 and 8 years and their parents. Measures included a parental questionnaire and child interviews. Partial…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Fantasy, Imagination
Heywood, John – 1996
This report describes a course in the Irish student-teacher curriculum that was designed in response to criticisms of post-graduate teacher training that it was too theoretical and insufficiently practical. The design of the Applied Psychology of Instruction course was based on the teacher-as-researcher paradigm of professionalism. Student…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education