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Young children often play fantasy or pretend games. It's especially common between about 2 and 7 years or age. It starts in simple ways. The Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget described how...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research shows sex differences in the development of children and adolescents. This review examines how these influence behaviour and attainment.
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research shows that children from large families, especially later born children, can be disadvantaged in a number of ways.
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Using research findings from the United States which throw light on family stress Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for New Zealand and points ways ahead. An address given at the second...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Putting things in order is an important way of organising them. Children who can organise objects, according to colour, or size, or what they are used for, are well on the way to being able to...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If any trend could be said to grow even as we watch, it would be the move away from what has been called 'social promotion': the current increase in policies that permit the retention of young...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau and described in 19...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In February 1985 Glenys and Ray Stephens found themselves both teaching new entrants at schools a kilometre apart, Ray at Sumner Primary, Glen at Van Asch College, a school for the hearing-impaired....
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Nowadays it is widely assumed that professionals have a good deal to teach parents about how to educate and bring up children. Nursery school, for example, is seen, not just as a secure and enjoyable...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Jean Piaget died, at the age of 84, just over 2 years ago. As with all great contemporaries, a balanced assessment of the long-term significance of his contributions will emerge only gradually over...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article