Individualized learning is the designing and implementing of courses or sections of courses in formats suitable for individual, independent study. It involves clearly specifying what students must learn, and then organizing the available resources so that this can be done in the ways and at the times most suitable for ...

In the last few years there have been signs of a new interest, both in New Zealand and overseas, in the teaching of spelling. This is evident in the amount of space American and English journals have lately devoted to the subject, and in the appearance, last year, of a ...

The research on the effects of open plan classrooms on children's learning and behaviour is still very limited in scope. In particular, not enough studies have been done to enable us to generalize with complete confidence about the effects on children of different ages or ability levels, and there have ...

In our society abuse and misuse of drugs - including alcohol and tobacco -is not confined solely to young people, but it is evidence of illicit drug usage and experimentation among young people that arouses the greatest expressions of public alarm and concern. This anxiety tends to focus on the ...

In one sentence the National Children's Bureau is an interdisciplinary organization concerned with all aspects of children's needs- health, education, development- in the family, school and society.  But that one sentence leaves very many questions unanswered. Is it necessary? What does it actually do? How is it funded? How long ...

In June 1974, Mrs Mary Tagg, then of Auckland Secondary Teachers College and now a Guidance Counsellor at Onehunga High School, Auckland, conducted a survey of slow learner education in state secondary schools in Auckland and North Auckland. The results of this survey will be of interest to all concerned ...

Nowadays people live longer and are less likely to die from lingering diseases; consequently fewer children have a direct experience of death in the family. When tragedy does occur, adult reluctance to discuss feelings and uncertainty about how best to help very often leads to confusion and emotional pain which ...

"First I look to the right and then to the left and then to the right again - and then I run." This was how typical Swedish seven-year-old coped with traffic in Stockholm. Yet Sweden is streets ahead of most other developed nations in its road safety programmes for young ...

In the first major and impartial evaluation of boarding school education, Royston Lambert and his co-workers have thrown valuable new light on the long-term effects of boarding on a large sample of English school boys. Starting in 1964, Lambert set out to study the different styles of residential education in ...

Developmental psychology is a discipline that proceeds on few facts and many hypotheses, but just about all developmental psychologists agree on two basic assumptions: first, environmental factors help determine how fast or slowly children's cognitive ability -what most of us call intelligence -develops and, second, experiences during the first years ...