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Berney, Tomi D.; Gritzer, Glenn – 1990
The goals of the Bilingual Children's Project (B.C.P.) were to help students acquire skills in the English language content area subjects, critical thinking, and problem solving. In its first year, the project served 740 kindergarten through third grade students of limited English proficiency at 12 schools. Participants' native languages were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language)
Feldman, Richard; And Others – 1985
Intended to help early childhood educators examine ways in which guidance can be infused into daily instruction, this manual aims to enable teachers to act as facilitators in the guidance process without adding a new assignment to an already busy schedule. Section A describes the integration of five guidance strands into the early childhood…
Descriptors: Books, Career Awareness, Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment
Balaban, Nancy – 1987
Discussion focuses on teachers' beliefs and values as they relate to working with young children. Specific attention is given to (1) whether the reported blurring of the boundaries between child-life and adult-life has affected the education of young children; (2) parental pressure to provide very young children with persistently optimal…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Style, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Taylor, Denny – 1983
Focusing on family interaction, this book discusses a study designed to develop systematic ways of looking at reading and writing as activities that have consequences in and are affected by family life. Topics of the seven chapters are as follows: the six families involved in the research, conservation and change in the transmission of family…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Family Attitudes, Family Environment
Sainato, Diane M.; Strain, Phillip S. – PRISE Reporter, 1987
This issue of the newsletter focuses on early intervention for handicapped preschool children. The lead article, entitled "Promoting Independent Work Skills in Handicapped Preschool Children," highlights findings of a project designed to identify critical skills needed for independent functioning in mainstream preschool and kindergarten…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Child Development
Klein, Susan S., Ed. – 1985
This handbook of collected papers is intended to aid in the achievement of sex equity in education, and in society through education. It is divided into six parts, each with a separate editor (or editors) and contains the following chapters: (1) Examining the Achievement of Sex Equity in and through Education (S. S. Klein, and others); (2)…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adult Education, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Design
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1981
Evaluation results of 1979-80 compensatory education programs for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children in 75 Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided early learning experiences in reading, mathematics, and language for educationally disadvantaged 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds to enhance…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Weiss, Rita S. – 1980
Evaluation of the 1974-77 INREAL (INclass REActive Language) demonstration model project, initially serving 518 children (aged 3-5 years), focused on the Colorado program's objectives of increasing language handicapped and bilingual (Spanish) children's language development significantly and preventing later language-related learning problems in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders of criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experience as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the thirteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anthropology, Child Abuse, Day Care
Bettelheim, Bruno – 1967
The nature, origin, and treatment of infantile autism are explored with a consideration of the child's world of encounter and case histories. The beginning of life, called the region of shadows, is mentioned; and the world of the newborn, body language, mutuality, autonomy, the autistic anlage, and the right side of time are examined for the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Howard, Norma K., Comp. – 1975
This selective abstract bibliography cites recent ERIC documents on behavioral differences between preschool and elementary school girls and boys in such areas as moral judgment, school readiness, self esteem, motor performance, aggression, locus of control, and social development. Other documents cited examined sex role development and sex role…
Descriptors: Aggression, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Child Development
Sigel, Irving E. – 1971
This document presents some of the major challenges facing Developmental Psychologists. Research revealed that middle class children tended to respond in classification tasks to objects and pictures as equivalents, whereas low class black children tended not to do so. The reason for this was investigated. This investigation of the course of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Blacks, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1971
This document reports on the Child Development/Day Care Resources Project. Project objectives are: (1) To develop a set of handbooks that describe the features common to good child development and education programs for use in day care, and include effective curriculum models from current practice; (2) To develop a set of principles that can serve…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Development, Cost Effectiveness, Cultural Enrichment
Thonis, Eleanor – 1971
Problems attributed to dual language learning in early childhood have been exaggerated and may be the result of a failure to control significant research variables. The relationship between a child's acquisition of a language and his ability to think must be better understood for closer investigation of the effects of dual language learning.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Soderbergh, Ragnhild – 1971
The reading instruction experiment described in this report is based on the theory that, if a child learns to talk without formal instruction solely by being exposed to language and if written language is to be considered as an independent system, a child could learn to read at the same age and in the same way as he is learning to talk, solely by…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis