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Zoyah Kinkead-Clark; Sabeerah Adbul-Majied – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Caribbean nations have leaned on and undergirded their early childhood programmes with Developmentally Appropriate Practices promulgated by the NAEYC. For many years the guidance provided by DAP has been used in both the development of standards of practice for early childhood professionals as well as curriculum development. In recent years…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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Rebecca S. New – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This essay entails a critical review of the origins, discourses and contemporary manifestations of NAEYC's enduring commitment to 'developmentally appropriate practice' (DAP); and proposes a reconceptualisation of DAP as an open question and incentive for place-based collaborative inquiry. Brief discussion of ECE's early history highlights…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational History, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices
Marjorie J. Kostelnik; Anne K. Soderman; Alice P. Whiren; Michelle L. Rupiper – Pearson, 2024
"Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum" emphasizes the how, what and why of curriculum development to help you create the most effective programs for young children ages 3 through 8. It's an all-in-one guide that brings together everything pre-service teachers need to implement an integrated, developmental approach to curriculum-based…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Best Practices, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Development
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Lydiah Nganga; Jamie Sisson; Sapna Thapa; John Kambutu; Samara Madrid Akpovo – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This critical cross-cultural study examined the alignment of the 2022 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards in the U.S. with Australian, Kenyan, and Nepali educational guidelines. Previously, NAEYC's educational guidelines adhered to Euro-Western notions of child development, with a biased view of normative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Guidelines, Cultural Differences
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Hovey, Katrina A.; Gauvreau, Ariane N.; Lohmann, Marla J. – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2022
In order to ensure the success of all children in an inclusive preschool classroom, teachers must utilize evidence-based practices as outlined by the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Developmentally Appropriate Practices and the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Early Childhood Recommended Practices. This can…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Special Needs Students, Inclusion
Cefai, Carmel; Downes, Paul; Cavioni, Valeria – European Commission, 2021
This analytical report seeks to address the evident gap in the formative assessment of social and emotional education by providing a framework indicating how social and emotional education may be assessed through a whole-school approach, both at individual (learner) and contextual (classroom climate and whole school system) levels, accompanied by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Holistic Approach