The author emphasizes the need for play-situation learning to be started in the preschool years and carried through the elementary grades. (AP)

Betsy Byars, author of more than 15 children's books, comments upon her life and work, stressing the potent impact of childhood experience on her writing. (HOD)

Middle-class children, divided by age, sex, and the presence/absence of younger siblings in the family, were studied to assess their interest in babies. The findings support MacDonald's contention that birth order effects are best understood as distinctive for each sex, especially when the behaviors investigated are sex-related. (Author/GC)

Traces trends in children's literature and in children's interests from 1950 to the 1970s. Review of current literature reveals preoccupation with modern topics including psychology, science and technology, new career and life-style patterns, and exposing the darker side of life. Traditional aspects of children's literature which remain important…

Suggests general classroom guidelines stressing the similarities of childhood experience for children of all cultures. (SB)

Discusses the importance of childhood outdoor experiences in fostering an appreciation for the environment. Emphasizes giving children opportunities to find their special places in nature. (JRH)

The author recounts childhood interactions with animals in the "wild" and how these experiences can enrich the lives of both children and adults. (LZ)

Theories of teaching and learning on human cognition depend on domain-free, general purpose processing by the brain. Cognition is modular in nature and often domain-specific. Children's ideas in science are often triggered rather than learned. Triggered conceptual structures are not necessarily expressible in language and may not be susceptible to…

Article adapted from a speech delivered to a Conference of the John Adaskin Project, sponsored by the Canadian Music Center (Toronto, Ontario, November 23, 1967).

Children's poetry no longer connotes holidays, nonsense, moral dicta, or the what's, why's, and how's of life, connotations that have frequently stereotyped poetry as sissy, baby, or boring stuff. Children's poems of the seventies suggest that any simple subject has become the province of a poem, including such topics as mud, oil slicks, sharks,…

Reports the results of a study conducted to determine if selected English authors' writings concerning their experiences in childhood revealed a natural appetite for learning geography. Concludes that the evidence shows children are inherently interested in geography, but have often failed to have their interest stimulated and expanded by…

Parents have a profound effect on how children's time is spent. How out-of-school time is used, managed, and valued is critical. How many activities are too many, and how to determine your child's interests are discussed. (MT)

At a time when educators are searching for and providing interesting interdisciplinary programs such as unified arts and related arts, it would seem that programs and projects which relate the child's educational experience with real life concerns are of extreme importance. Stamp collecting satisfies that criterion and its different facets were…