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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...
The Lowenfeld Kaleidoblocs Test
By Margaret Lowenfeld
As the field of clinical psychology widens it becomes steadily more necessary that methods should be devised which can be used as a supplement to the i...
World Created from Toys in a Sand Tray
By Margaret Lowenfeld
What you see in this case has never been displayed before. This treasure from a museum collection tells a story that hasn’t been told until now. But whi...
Margaret Lowenfeld Day Conference
By Margaret Lowenfeld
There is a spectrum of interest in play. An outer world there are outcome measures.
Competence
Coping
Competence is domain specific. Capacity for effective ...
Irrational Fears
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Everyone feels afraid sometimes, for fear is a valuable part of human life; fear of accidents leads to caution in traffic- fear of fire to care with gas taps....
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...
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)....
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...
Recent Advances in Psychiatry
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In modern psychiatry it is coming increasingly to be more realised that progress depends upon the devising of means to achieve two aims: the creation of instr...
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...
Play and Symbolism in Lowenfeld and Winnicott
Play and Symbolism in Lowenfeld and Winnicott
By Madeleine Davis
In her biography of Margaret Lowenfeld which appears as the introduction to the book of Lowenfeld’s selected pap...
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...
The Future of Preventive Psychology
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Modern clinical psychology urges the importance for the child’s whole emotional future of the attitude of the mother to him during the time of breast or bot...
Behaviour Problems in the Nursery
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Every mother and every children’s nurse who wishes to handle her children wisely is faced with the same problem: how to combine sympathy and freedom with di...
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...
Pleasure and Freudian Theory
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Owing to a certain misunderstanding the title which this paper has originally borne is a little misleading. What I want to attempt is not an exposition of ple...
Child Education Article
By Margaret Lowenfeld
We have recently been involved in a research project, investigating the mathematics that children can learn through their experiences with Poleidoblocs. For t...