Early formal education : current theory, research, and practice / Robert D. Hess and Roberta Meyer Bear, editors.

Author/creator Conference on Pre-school Education
Other author Hess, Robert D.
Other author Bear, Roberta Meyer, 1942-
Other author Social Science Research Council. Committee on Learning and the Educational Process.
Format Book
Edition1st pbk. ed.
Publication InfoNew Brunswick [N.J.] : AldineTransaction, 2010.
Descriptionx, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Early education as socialization / Robert D. Hess -- The effect of early stimulation in the emergence of cognitive processes / William Fowler -- The problem of timing in pre-school education / Halbert B. Robinson and Nancy M. Robinson -- Conditions that facilitate or impede cognitive functioning : implications for developmental theory and for education / Eugene S. Gollin -- The early training project and its general rationale / Susan W. Gray and Rupert A. Klaus -- The fourth dimension in early childhood education / Bettye M. Caldwell -- Brief reflections on the theory of early childhood enrichment programs / Cynthia P. Deutsch and Martin Deutsch -- Maternal influences upon early learning : the cognitive environments of urban pre-school children / Robert D. Hess and Virginia C. Shipman -- Montessori with the culturally disadvantaged : a cognitive-developmental interpretation and some research findings / Lawrence Kohlberg -- The reinforcement contingency in pre-school and remedial education / Donald M. Baer and Montrose M. Wolf -- Some implications of research on language development for pre-school education / Courtney B. Cazden -- Informal education during the first months of life / Burton L. White -- The responsive environments project / Omar Khayyam Moore and Alan Ross Anderson -- Early learning and personality : summary and commentary / Eleanor E. Maccoby -- Some educated guesses about cognitive development in the pre-school years / Sheldon H. White -- Some problems in the evaluation of pre-school intervention programs / Joseph Glick -- Issues in early learning and pre-school education : a summary of the conference discussions / Roberta Meyer Bear.
General note"Papers ... presented at the Conference on Pre-school Education, held in Chicago on February 7-9, 1966 ... [and] sponsored by the Committee on Learning and the Educational Process of the Social Science Research Council."--CIP data.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009036902
ISBN9780202363295
ISBN0202363295