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Rhee, Mikyung C.; Bhavnagri, Navaz – 1991
This study investigated social interactions with peers on the part of 4-year-olds who were playing with a computer. Subjects were 18 preschoolers whose interactions were videotaped while they played with a computer for eight 45-minute sessions. Composition, initiation, and form of interaction were coded. Observations about the composition of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computer Games, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Pisarchick, Sally E.; And Others – 1992
One of nine competency-based training modules for personnel preparation in early childhood special education, this guide focuses on the importance of play and learning in preschool programs. All modules are adaptable for use with a general audience, direct service personnel, or administrators and are based on the following principles of the Ohio…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development
Bolton, Sharon; Williamson, Kris Strom, Ed. – 1990
This booklet presents child-rearing practices found successful by families of children who are deaf-blind, and includes photographs of deaf-blind children using the techniques. Along with a broad overview of communications theory as it applies to young deaf-blind children, techniques are described for using tactile objects as keys to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Deaf Blind, Motor Development
Ryan, Susan Fay – 1989
An experienced teacher, certified in the education of the gifted, designed and implemented a practicum that offered opportunities for enhancing the cultural literacy and creative play of preschool children who received little individual, reading-related attention from their working parents and caregivers. Play that enriched the imaginative…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Newsletters, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
Noppe, Illene C.; Ray, Melissa – 1990
A total of 23 American and Hmong-American preschool children from 2 day care center classrooms were observed during free play in an effort to determine the proportion of positive, negative, and neutral initiations made to peers as a function of sex and cultural background. A series of weighted, two-way analyses of variance were performed on…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Marfo, Kofi, Ed. – 1988
Examined are the interactions of parents and their children with developmental disabilities, focusing on the following aspects: social, emotional, language, communication, clinical, educational, and methodological. A partial listing of contents follows: "Determinants of Parent and Child Interactive Behavior" (Carl Dunst and Carol…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response
Lind, Ulla – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
This article presents a negotiating practice that demonstrates the importance of the interplay of visual, verbal and linguistic signs. As such it discusses the relationship between identity and a signifying practice in a Swedish preschool, as children and teachers negotiate meaning. With emphasis on the relationship between building identity and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Photography, Foreign Countries

Rosenfeld, Anne H. – 1978
Part of a series on early childhood demonstration programs designed to improve early parent-child relationships, stimulate positive child development, and prevent later behavior difficulties, the pamphlet describes the Mother-Child Home Program, in which low-income mothers are educated to become more effective developmental guides for their 2 to 4…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Emotional Development
D'Audney, Weslee; Dollis, Dorothy – 1975
This idea resource booklet (in the format of an illustrated school-year calendar) is designed to be used by teachers in developing programs for preschool children. The developmental and seasonal activities included follow a progression from simple to complex. Suggestions for modifying many of the activities to each child's level of development are…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC. – 1997
Play is a natural activity for children that provides opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and socially. These two booklets offer toy selection advice from the government agency charged with protecting the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products. The first booklet outlines toy choices for: (1)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Child Behavior, Child Safety
Kesner, John E. – 1997
This study examined the relationship between the security of preschool children's attachment relationship to their parents and how they negotiated and managed hypothetical conflict with peers. Participating were 66 preschool-age children recruited from child care facilities and residing in a large urban area in the southeastern United States. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Blacks, Conflict Resolution
Miller, Karen – 1999
This book for caregivers and parents provides over 300 activities based on the developmental needs of infants, toddlers, and 2-year-olds. The book describes key developmental stages to assist caregivers in identifying developmentally appropriate activities. Following an introductory chapter, the book is organized by developmental domains. Each…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development
Preschoolers' Actions and Social Representations: A Sociogenetic Approach to Information Processing.
Gravel, F.; Page, P.; Cloutier, G.; Legault, F. – 1999
The central objective of this study was to draw interdependent relationships between preschoolers' social functioning and their modes of social thought. Assessment of 67 four-year-olds was done through systematic observations of social behavior, including social participation, type of play, and affective involvement in the preschool setting, as…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Emotional Response

Bergen, Doris – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1994
Comments on the articles presented in this issue with respect to their implications for classroom practices. Stresses that in this issue, the researchers describe how social context factors (such as adult viewpoints and adult-child interaction patterns) and physical context factors (such as variations in classroom space-time organization and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Children, Day Care, Educational Environment

Casey, M. Beth; Lippman, Marjory – Young Children, 1991
Presents strategies to make planning-through-play activities a fun and integral part of the preschool developmental curriculum. Strategies are influenced by a Piagetian approach and an information processing approach that focuses on development of decision making. Specific suggestions are based on a model preschool program in Brookline,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Demonstration Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Learning Strategies