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Task for Two
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In studying the adult the facts that come to light are the results of events and processes started in early life. In work with children we are in direct conta...
The Adolescents Search for Identity
By Margaret Lowenfeld
My task is to attempt to present an approach to adolescent problems, which may seem an unusual one. My theme is the adolescent in 1966: what is his situation?...
Nursery Schools
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The author of this article is chiefly known for her work as a psycho-therapist. At the Institute of Child Psychology, of which she is honorary director, and ...
Emotional & Intellectual Development
By Margaret Lowenfeld
What I have planned in this first lecture is to put before you certain basic facts concerning the normal course of development of children which you can use a...
Fitness for Play
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Summary of lectures in a series on “Mental hygiene as a problem of national fitness”, given under the auspices of the National Council for Ment...
The Mosaic Test
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The Mosaic test arose out of a desire to find means through which individual difference between person and person could be expressed in a standardised medium....
Chemical Composition of Colostrum and Early Milk
By Margaret Lowenfeld
A very extensive literature has grown up during the past half century, on the subject of the chemistry of normal human milk. So vast has this literature becom...
The Use Of Lowenfeld Techniques In Individual Assessment
by Thérèse Woodcock
Today’s subject is particularly reliant on your input: either due to recent work practices having changed or because your own work is not being covered by t...
Guidance Through Play
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In earlier groupings of society, the guidance of a child was a fairly straightforward undertaking. Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son, Smiles’ ...
The Danger and Value of Curiosity
By Margaret Lowenfeld
I feel it a great privilege to have the opportunity of speaking after two such excellent, fitting and really illuminating addresses, because my task is made ...
Renaissance of Voluntary Enterprise in Medicine
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In every age the struggle for progress towards a sound society crystallises around a different issue: for example, the struggle for religious freedom, or for ...
Breastfeeding – January
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In dealing with difficult cases of breastfeeding the only thing of certain value is to understand the principles lying behind rules that are given for the ma...
Mosaic Test: Predicting School Readiness in School Children
Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
The aim of the present study was to determine whether or not the Lowenfeld Mosaic test might prove useful in predicting school readiness or unreadiness in chi...
Child Life Investigations
Margaret Lowenfeld
This Report gives the results of an investigation into the relation between social conditions and acute rheumatism in children which was organized by the London ...
Human Milk: Method of Extraction and Fat Percentage
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The fat content of both cow’s and human milk is a subject on which much work has been done, and though certain facts are now well established there is still...
Psychology as it Affects Midwifery
By Margaret Lowenfeld
For the general welfare of the nation the maternity nurse and midwife have a quite special responsibility. In their’ hands lies the welfare of mother an...
Human Milk in the Later and Early Periods of Lactation
By Margaret Lowenfeld
A previous investigation gave the variations in the chemical composition of normal human colostrum and early milk (Lowenfeld, Widdows, Bond and Taylor, 1927)....
Playing and Learning with Poleidoblocs
Poleidoblocs are the coloured building bricks introduced by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld some 55 years ago, yet still sustain their popularity in many primary school classrooms. Many of t...
Poleidoblocs in Nurse and Infant Classrooms
By Margaret Lowenfeld
For generations the use of tactile structured materials has been advocated by eminent psychologists and educators as essential for children’s learning a...
