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Isenberg, Joan P., Ed.; Jalongo, Mary Renck, Ed. – 1997
Noting that understanding the contexts, continuities, and controversies of early childhood education is a particularly challenging task because of the diversity of the field, this book provides a critical examination of the issues and controversies surrounding early childhood practices, policies, and professional development. The book's chapters…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Continuity, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Diversity (Student)
Mallory, Bruce L., Ed.; New, Rebecca S., Ed. – 1994
The current conceptualization of what is appropriate in early childhood education is overly narrow in its interpretation of the role of the teacher, and with respect to variations in cultural and developmental diversity. Based on this observation, this book discusses various issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and appropriate early…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Dimidjian, Victoria Jean, Ed. – 1992
The first part of this two-part book on play in public education, contains chapters authored by 23 educators, most of whom had been colleagues or students of Professor Margaret B. McFarland to whose memory the book is dedicated, addresses the need to integrate child development research with classroom practice in order to provide developmentally…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Check Lists, Child Development, Curriculum Development
Cassidy, Jack, Ed.; Garrett, Sherrye D., Ed. – 2002
This yearbook recounts the work in 2001 at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the university, with an enrollment…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Childrens Literature