Early formal education
Subtitle: current theory, research, and practice
By: Robert D. Hess and Roberta Meyer Bear, editors.
Contributors: Hess, Robert D.; Bear, Roberta Meyer, 1942-; Social Science Research Council. Committee on Learning and the Educational Process.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: AldineTransaction; Aldine Transaction
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780202363295
Subjects: Education, Preschool -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early education as socialization / Robert D. Hess; title: The effect of early stimulation in the emergence of cognitive processes / William Fowler; title: The problem of timing in pre-school education / Halbert B. Robinson and Nancy M. Robinson; title: Conditions that facilitate or impede cognitive functioning : implications for developmental theory and for education / Eugene S. Gollin; title: The early training project and its general rationale / Susan W. Gray and Rupert A. Klaus; title: The fourth dimension in early childhood education / Bettye M. Caldwell; title: Brief reflections on the theory of early childhood enrichment programs / Cynthia P. Deutsch and Martin Deutsch; title: Maternal influences upon early learning : the cognitive environments of urban pre-school children / Robert D. Hess and Virginia C. Shipman; title: Montessori with the culturally disadvantaged : a cognitive-developmental interpretation and some research findings / Lawrence Kohlberg; title: The reinforcement contingency in pre-school and remedial education / Donald M. Baer and Montrose M. Wolf; title: Some implications of research on language development for pre-school education / Courtney B. Cazden; title: Informal education during the first months of life / Burton L. White; title: The responsive environments project / Omar Khayyam Moore and Alan Ross Anderson; title: Early learning and personality : summary and commentary / Eleanor E. Maccoby; title: Some educated guesses about cognitive development in the pre-school years / Sheldon H. White; title: Some problems in the evaluation of pre-school intervention programs / Joseph Glick; title: Issues in early learning and pre-school education : a summary of the conference discussions / Roberta Meyer Bear.