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Peer reviewedLawrence, Lynne – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Describes the fundamental attitude of learning-from-the-child as integral to observation. Discusses how one learns what motivates each child through patience, humility, repeated experience, objectivity, and faith. Outlines some human tendencies, and challenges us to ensure these tendencies are answered within the Montessori environment. (JS)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education
Download full textJohnson, Catherine – 1986
"Highlights" magazine receives approximately 75,000 letters and contributions each year from young readers. Common concerns children write about include getting along with family members and friends, problems at school, and social and personal problems. Only a tiny percentage write of grave problems such as abuse, suicide, or drugs.…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment, Family Relationship
Ben Porath, Sigal R. – 2003
Legal and political theorists strive at expanding the scope of children's rights to cover further areas of their lives and choices. This paper suggests that this effort is misguided, and that the protection of children requires instituting adults' obligations, rather than broadening children's rights. Contrary to the common theoretical and…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
Sutton-Smith, Brian – 1985
Well meaning parents and teachers often use children's play for the purposes of literacy and socialization. Yet, these attempts may deny play to children by subordinating play to some other concept. Evidence shows that even when parents play with their very young children they generally play games like shopping, cooking, and eating; whereas when…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Psychology, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
Sharma, Adarsh; Khosla, Renu – 1987
Traditionally, the Indian child has been cherished and reared with an approach to parenting characterized by an easy pace, the absence of set rules, and permission to play freely within the matrix of a large, joint family. Rough toys, fashioned by local craftsmen, have been handed down from generation to generation. But today, India is beset with…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Developing Nations, Federal Legislation
Kenawy, Hoda Mohammed – 1982
The role played by music in Egyptian education in developing the character of the child is discussed. The first part of the paper discusses the characteristics of the elementary school child and examines how each can be developed through musical education. For example, young children have a fertile imagination that can be stimulated by music.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
