Child development studies in India
- Bombay Tata Institute of Social Sciences 1985
- 232p.-
- Tiss Series 56 .
PART OF the excitement in studying child-development partitularly in recent years in India, stems from the tact that, the tield-is under going a period of unprecedented growth. Child development as an applied and independent discipline is recent. The disciplines like Psychology. Pacdiatrics, Education, Social Work, Home Science, Psychiatry and Sociology, all contribute to understand thhe child. Child development draws knowledge from these disciplines. The task of preparing annotations of the studies was undertaken (1) to find out the trends and identify the gaps in researches in child development; (ii) to provide perspective for future research; and (iii) to make readily available a set of researches to students, teachers and researchers oI child development. Researches were collected from various journals, books and
mimeographed research reports. Questionnaires were also mailed to various teaching and research institutions having the depart- ments of Child Development, Home Science, Psychology, Education and to some of the professionals working with these and other departments who are actively engaged in research in child development.
A few of the annotations are reproduced as submitted by the authors as we did not have access to their detailed report. The research studies included in this document are mostly those which were published/mimeographed in the seventies. Thus, by and large the compilation is of a decade, however, it is not exhaustive. It may provide a spectrum of the work in the field of child development. Masters' dissertations were excluded in compilation as generally they are part of the research training for the students. An overview of the trends of studies on child
development is also given. It is based on the annotations of the studies included in this volume. A total of 203 studies were collected. These three broad sections. T he three sections are (a dinto (b) Aspects of Development and (c) Studies on Childeon Special Needs. The classitication ot study in a particular ce is arbitrary to the extent that wherever it was found relat more suitable it was included. Cross-entries are not given, Authors index is given in alphabetical order Each abstract gives a briet note on the purpOse of the study the sample studied, the method and tools used for data collection and the results. All the findings of the study have not been given Only major findings from the point of view of child developmens
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are mentioned.
Our sincere thanks are due to all those institutions and
researchers who have responded to our questionnaire and to the Staff of the Library of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences for helping us locate the materials in the library and getting the books and periodicals from other libraries situated in Bombay We express our gratitude to Mrs. Ranjan Amin and Dr. S. V. Kale for giving their valuable comments on the earlier version of the manuscript. We are grateful to our Director Dr. (Miss) Armaity S. Desai for her full cooperation in bringing out this document and to Our earlier Director, Dr. M. S. Gore for his encouragement m initiating this work. Thanks are also merited by Mrs. Manjit Kaur Gupta anu Mr. Nirmal Kumar Thakur, who typed the manuseript