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de la Brosse, Beatrice – 1987
The guide offers information to family day care providers who desire to expand their knowledge of early childhood development in order to work with infants and young children with special needs in their day care settings. The first of four chapters answers common questions and concerns of day care providers, describes children with special needs…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Developmental Disabilities
de la Brosse, Beatrice – 1988
The Spanish translation of this guide offers information to Spanish-speaking family day care providers who desire to expand their knowledge of early childhood development in order to work with infants and young children with special needs in their day care settings. The first of four chapters answers common questions and concerns of day care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Developmental Disabilities
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1986
This laboratory manual is designed to prepare postsecondary students for working with children in a child care setting. The experiences in each unit are intended to enhance students' knowledge of and skills in working with children. The workbook is organized in five units covering the following topics: social influences on children and families;…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Community Influence, Competency Based Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
The main purpose of the hearing reported in this document was to expand the knowledge of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families concerning early intervention at several critical points during infancy, early childhood and early and later adolescence. Six distinguished researchers in child development gave testimony at the hearings…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Birth, Child Development
Jacob, Evelyn – 1982
Observations of children's daily activities and interviews with the children's caretakers provided information on preschool children's informal home education in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Three kinds of skills were examined: literacy, chores, and rule-bound games. The unit of analysis was the "Potential Learning Activity" (PLA), a…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Childrens Games, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Davis, Helen M.; And Others – 1977
Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggmst practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in subset C, presents examples of multi-centered guidance practices according to focusing on home, school, and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Fowlkes, Martha R. – 1980
The way in which the lives of spouses of professional men form an integral part of their husbands' careers is addressed, based on an analysis of the lives and marriages of 40 women: 20 wives of university professors and 20 wives of doctors. Through in-depth interviews with the wives, the connections between family and work were explored. The…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics
Mazzarella, Jo Ann – 1981
Chapter 1 of a volume on school leadership, this chapter looks at research findings concerning the characteristics of leaders. The author begins by looking at those characteristics resulting from accidents of birth or early environmental influences and concludes that leaders are usually more intelligent than nonleaders, not firstborn, used to…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
Doxiadis, Spyros, Ed. – 1979
This book is the product of an international symposium on the child in the world of tomorrow which took place in Athens the first week of July 1978. Contributors come from more than 10 scientific disciplines, among them pediatricians, architects and town planners, sociologists, economists, teachers, and politicans. Participants came from all five…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Children, Cognitive Development
EDGERTON, HAROLD A.; SYLVESTER, ROBERT W. – 1967
THE SIMILARITY OF JOB CORPS TRAINEES TO THE POPULATION OF THE SAME AGE FROM WHICH THEY WERE DRAWN AND PROPORTION OF TRAINEES COMING FROM EACH STATE WERE DETERMINED. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM PREENROLLMENT APPLICATIONS, CENSUS REPORTS, AND PUBLICATIONS. FINDINGS INCLUDED -- (1) THE NUMBER OF 16- TO 17-YEAR-OLD MALE TRAINEES WAS DISPROPORTIONATELY…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
EDMINSTER, HOWARD – 1967
DATA FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND SCHOOL FILES ARE PRESENTED ON 99 STUDENTS (90 PERCENT) REFERRED BY THE AGENCY TO THE BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM AT THE JOHN ADAMS ADULT SCHOOL. OVER 60 PERCENT WERE NEGROES, WITH WHITES, MEXICANS, AND AMERICAN INDIANS ALSO REPRESENTED. THE MAJORITY WERE FROM SOUTHERN STATES, 37 PERCENT WERE DIVORCED OR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Age Groups, Attendance Patterns
Levine, Daniel U.; And Others – 1980
This report presents a study of issues involving magnet schools in big city school districts. The study consisted of three parts: (1) an analysis of the attitudes of educators familiar with part-time desegregation; (2) an investigation of the role of magnet schools that have been making a positive contribution to the redevelopment of big city…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Black Students, Busing, Desegregation Methods
Vongthieres, Siri; Egan, Lawrence A. – 1980
This report includes (1) a paper that was written by Siri Vongthieres and Lawrence Egan regarding the educational needs of both native born and recently arrived Asian Americans, and (2) a review of that paper by Masako Ledward, LaVerne Moore, and Emiko I. Kudo. Issues discussed concerning American born Asian students include: (1) English language…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1979
The methodological parameters of evaluative research studies help to identify a conceptualization of the phenomenon under investigation. Holistic critiques that identify the conceptual models under which the research was conducted shed light on the validity of the disparate inferences made from a number of studies of schools and school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Puffer, Geneva – 1976
This study compared the sex role attitudes of 32 children (in grades K-2) from "traditional" homes (in which mothers stressed socialization toward standard cultural sex roles) with the attitudes of 34 children of the same ages from "non-traditional" homes (in which mothers stressed non-sexist socialization). Children responded to three attitude…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Child Rearing
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