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Direct linkGriggs, Gerald, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Physical Education is a core component of the primary school curriculum. The primary years are perhaps the most significant period for motor development in children, a time during which basic movement competencies are developed and which offers the first opportunity for embedding physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. This is the first…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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)
Goffin, Stacie G., Ed.; Day, David E., Ed. – 1994
This book extends the discussion regarding effective early childhood teacher education in light of two contradictory public demands, day care and education. The sections of the book focus on what makes an effective beginning teacher, what is needed to move beyond initial competence, and what makes an effective early childhood teacher educator.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Hauser, Mary E., Ed.; Jipson, Janice A., Ed. – 1998
Through personal narrative and scholarly reflection, this book examines the foundations of early childhood education, contemporary curricular and pedagogical practice in early childhood education, and critical issues affecting the multiple worlds of childhood. Essays by individual contributors are linked by contributors' conversations. An…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Day Care
Kamii, Constance, Ed. – 1990
The purpose of this publication, which is addressed to a variety of audiences including educators, parents, legislators, school board members, members of the press, and voters in general, is to persuade the reader to help stop achievement and readiness testing in kindergarten and first and second grades and to rethink current educational goals and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advocacy, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change
Download full textDimidjian, 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
Phillips, Amy L., Ed. – 1996
Changes in our world have made it more difficult for children to find protected, exciting places to play and interesting, satisfactory things to play with. This edited volume, resulting from the collaboration of Bank Street College (New York, New York), Erikson Institute (Chicago, Illinois), Pacific Oaks College (Pasadena, California), and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Child Development
