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Peer reviewedWilliams, Jennifer L.; Strangis, Diane E. – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2002
Examines the social and emotional benefits for children in early childhood multiage classrooms and the strategies teachers implement to promote those developmental domains. Explores findings about the social and emotional advantages for students, and presents advantages and disadvantages from the multiage perspective. Reviews findings on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education
Download full textSundell, Knut – 1993
Before 1970, no mixed-age groups existed in Swedish nursery schools. By 1991, 43 percent of children enrolled in nursery school were in mixed-age groups of ages 1 to 6 years, and 37 percent were in groups of children ages 3 to 6 years. Mixed-age groups are assumed to have advantages, including positive influences on learning and social…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
