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 ...

During the early part of the 20th century the term 'gifted' was a label given to those of superior ability, and it has continued to be used in this general way ever since. However, when used in this manner it is not really a definition, for it defines neither the ...

These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research literature dealing with characteristics of gifted and creative persons.

Considering the world wide trend towards co-educational secondary schooling since the Second World War, it is surprising that the question of co-education has remained a subject for research. Over the past 50 years English researchers have shown the most consistent interest in this topic and the movement towards co-educational comprehensive ...