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Early Childhood Folio 1 (1983)
Contents
Using research findings from the United States which threw light on family stress, Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for N.Z. and points ways ahead. An address given at the Second Early Childhood Care and Development Convention, Christchurch, August 1979. (From set: Research Information...
Who helps the professional pre-school workers or takes their place? And what is in it for the volunteers? A description of the typical N.Z. pre-school volunteer. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1978, No. 2)
In Ypsilanti, Michigan, a project has been underway for 20 years. It now shows that significantly more of those who have had pre-schooling have jobs, and stay out of prison. Pre-school education is a "headstart!" (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1979, No. 2)
Does a baby suffer irreparable harm if separated from its mother? This review of the evidence suggests that the question, and our old answers, come from Western Society's emphasis on individuals. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1977, No. 1)
Is it safe, emotionally, to pass the baby from hand to hand, to leave it in a child centre, to take it to parties, to leave it in hospital? (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1980, No. 1)
You guessed right; people from the Pacific Islands. But why? Research reveals enough clues to make solutions possible. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1979, No. 1)
How does the size of the building affect play? How does the size of the group? How does the type of equipment you provide, or the number of items, or the number of adults, or what they do? Many basic questions are answered here. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1981, No. 1)
Activities sheets and graphs to help you re-plan your pre-school environment. Here is simple research you can do yourself, with practical results. Plus a preliminary study of noise-producing factors in eight relatively new kindergarten buildings in Auckland. (From set: Research Information for...
When are open areas too open, and closed areas too closed? Help with suiting the physical arrangements you make to the play you wish to stimulate. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1976, No. 2)
Playing mothers and fathers or 'Dr Who' is fascinating to watch and seems very enjoyable for children, but how important is it? Recent British research makes this clearer. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1982, No. 2)
For the young immigrant child what the teacher does to help her acquire new words is more important than persuading her parents to speak English at home. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1977, No. 1)
Have we made advances in eliminating sex-role stereotyping in our preschools and junior school? Two studies in 1975 and 1980 compared. Hints for the 80s. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1981, No. 2)
Putting things in order is an important way of organising and thinking about them. How do pre-schoolers come to this learning task and how do they progress? (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1981, No. 1)
How much contact is there between adults and children in N.Z. preschools? Focussing on conversation as one aspect, this account of recent research tells us. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1982, No. 1)
Project PATH (Parents as Teachers of the Handicapped) has asked parents and professionals about the services given, has trained parents in how to teach their handicapped children, and has monitored the (encouraging) results. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1981, No. 2)
Of course fathers are important! Aren't they? A review of research. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1982, No. 2)
Too much TV rots the creative mind? Or enhances general knowledge and language development? A survey of teachers' views. (From set: Research Information for Teachers, 1977, No. 2)