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Ng'asike, John T. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2014
Western conceptions of child development and the models of early education they engender predominantly shape services for young children in the first eight years of life all over Africa. This chapter brings a reconceptualist perspective to the critique of Kenya's continuing failure to ground early childhood programs and services in local cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, African Culture, Child Development
Hunt, Elizabeth – Teaching Tolerance, 2003
Adoptive children face some different developmental concerns than their non-adoptive peers. Educators need to understand that certain lessons and assignments can affect adoptive and non-adoptive children very differently. In this article, the author offers several classroom strategies for adopted students. An autobiography assignment, potentially…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Autobiographies
Steinberg, Adria, Ed. – Harvard Education Letter, 1992
This document consists of a selection of the best articles previously published in the "Harvard Education Letter." It contains the following articles (without citing the issue in which they originally appeared): (1) "School-Parent Relationships that Work: An Interview with James Comer"; (2) "Unpopular Children"; (3)…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Child Development, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques