The Developing Child

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

261

Date Released

1980

Length of issue (in feet)

520

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Developing Child

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: How did you - how did any of us as children - learn to make sense of the world? How did we, alone within our own minds, ever create order out of the jumble around us? How did our unaided minds ever sort out the immense complexities of language and learn to connect symbols with reality? New theories suggest our need to be social is inborn - is genetically determined - and that we are almost biologically primed to respond to each other. We know how to talk, in other words, before we have the language to do so. At a very early age intellectual and emotional development are very closely bound together. Is our emotional stability built on simple games we share with our parents. How important is experience-sharing to the growing child? This programme asks these questions and examines some of the work being done at the universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham, to try and explain us to ourselves.

Keywords

Education and training; Health and medicine; Children; Science and technology

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/261

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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