- The Jean Piaget Society
The Jean Piaget Society was established in l970 to provide a forum for the study of the development of human knowledge. At this site you will find a biography of Piaget and can learn about conferences that are based upon his work and ideas.
- The Mistakes That Children Make: Preoperational Reasoning
This Web site reviews the limitation of preoperational thinking according to Piaget.
- Constructivist Learning Design
This page is a resource for teachers and students of teaching who want to apply constructivist learning theory to the design of educational experiences. This is the principle called discovery learning in the Berk text.
- Sociocultural Theory
This site, created by the University of Colorado in Denver, provides many links to current research based in sociocultural theory.
- Vygotsky and Language Acquisition
At this site you will find extensive information on Vygotsky's theory of language acquisition, including the origins of thought and language, word meaning and concept formation, and the relationship of thought and language to intellectual development.
- The Collaborative Classroom
This site contains a very comprehensive article on the collaborative classroom. Assisted discovery and peer collaboration are important principles in Vygotsky's theory of education.
- Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
Once you get beyond the rather intimidating title of this article, you will find an interesting and understandable article that compares and contrasts the theoretical ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky.
- Visual Media and Young Children's Attention Span
This article was written by Gloria DeGaetano, a national speaker and consultant on issues related to children and media and the author of Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy. The author considers the effect of hours of television viewing on children's attention spans.
- UAB Cognitive Development Lab
This link will take you to the Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There are links to research articles and conference presentations by the faculty associated with the lab on the topics of Children's Mathematical Strategies and Children's Memory Strategies.
- The Children's Literature Web Guide
The Children's Literature Web Guide categorizes books for children and young adults. This site also provides information on Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
- Helping Your Child Become a Reader
The U.S. Department of Education developed this site to suggest strategies and activities for fostering literacy development from infancy through age 10.
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children is an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in early childhood education. Student membership is available and membership includes a subscription to a bimonthly journal, Young Children, that is concerned with research and practice in infant and early childhood development and education.
- The Association for Childhood Education International
The Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) is an organization interested in promoting sound educational practice from infancy through early adolescence.
- National Network for Child Care
The National Network for Child Care website unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. It offers extensive information on day care and child development.
- National Head Start Association
Project Head Start was founded by the federal government in 1965 to provide economically-disadvantaged children with a year or two of preschool, along with nutritional and medical services. There are currently over 2000 Head Start programs nationwide.
- Aboriginal Head Start
This page is devoted to information about Canada's Aboriginal Head Start Program. You will find information on its history and mission, as well as a description of how it links to other federal programs for children and families.
- High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation is devoted to improving development and education from infancy through the high school years.
- National Institute on Media and the Family
The National Institute on Media and the Family is an organization that provides research, education, and information regarding the impact of the media on children and families. Among other things, this site features a rating system for evaluating various media, tools and resources for parents and educators, and quizzes for evaluating family media habits.
- Young Children's Oral Language Development
This article describes how and when language is learned, as well as the components that make up language, and provides parents with suggestions for ways to nurture language development.
- U.S. Department of Education Helping Your Child to Read
Suggested strategies and activities for fostering literacy development from infancy through age 10.
