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Emotions color our everyday individual existence and shape all aspects of our interpersonal and intellectual experiences. In this film, animations...

Thoughtful humans have always been deeply concerned with the moral nature of their actions and recent historical events have further widened the sc...

The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the li...

The work of Jean Piaget has contributed much of the theoretical justification for the current move to developmentally appropriate education. Piaget...

Other than Freud, no psychologist has been so discussed, critiqued and, at times, maligned as B.F. Skinner. Using both archival and new film, this ...

Two very different philosophies of education have dominated teacher training in this century: Teacher directed, whole group learning with its empha...

This film offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on dramatic play. Using enchanting sequences of young children playing house, doctors ...

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elki...

Joan M. Erikson describes her search for a better living situation for her frail husband and then presents her poignant recounting of his subsequen...

"Wisdom and integrity are something that other people may see in an old person, but its not what that old person is feeling. Thats what kind of rou...

Best known for her pioneering work in the positive effects of enriched environments on brain growth, research she largely did with rats in the 1960...

Using vignettes filmed at an exemplary childrens center, students are introduced to the vocabulary of language studies. Dr. Honig describes the dev...

Born more than 25 years before Piaget or Vygotsky, Maria Montessori understood the constructivistic nature of all learning. As she observed childre...

For thousands of years, humans have asked if we perceive the world accurately through our senses. Because seeing is so important for our functioni...

In this suite of 3 films, Lily's enormous spirit and openness in discussing her situation give insights to the full life possible for those with Do...

The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this film produc...

Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform the newborn into ...

Betty Friedan originally gained fame for her important role in the Women's Movement of the 1960's and 1970's. She continued to be an insightful and...

Using archival materials and newly shot film sequences, this film introduces students to the rich wisdom of Erik H. Erikson. Best known for his ide...

Using the resources of the Brain Research Center of UCLA, this film illustrates the development of neuroscience from its classical reliance on info...

John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952...

According to Jean Piaget, intelligence develops in a necessary sequence of stages that are related to age. Piagets theories have given us profound ...

We have always wanted all children to read and write fluently. But with our growing dependence on computer based communication and the return of pu...

Positive intimate relationships with spouses, relatives and friends are incredibly important to mental health in adulthood. John Bowlby's Attachmen...

Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Banduras work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence ind...

Mary Ainsworths Strange Situation is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in ...

Systematic examination of old age is a new field inspired by the unprecedented number of people living long enough to become elderly. Developmental...

It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward si...