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Crossing the Boundaries: The Need to Integrate School Leadership and Early Childhood Education
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Göncü, Artin; Main, Catherine; Perone, Anthony; Tozer, Steve – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2014
Recent Illinois legislation requires school principals in the state to be qualified to provide school leadership for children from preschool to grade twelve instead of kindergarten to grade twelve. Illinois is the first state to make such a change and may well serve as a model for change in school leadership preparation on a national level. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Education, Principals
Revisiting the Landscape of Play.
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Veale, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Examines the traditional place of play in contemporary early childhood programs in light of new directions in theory and curriculum, the push for educational outcomes, and perceived pressures of the global market economy. Maintains that a new focus on teaching through play may provide a way to reconcile demand for outcomes with a concern for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Context Effect, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Playing for Keeps: Supporting Children's Play. Topics in Early Childhood Education, Volume 2.
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