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Wallace, Kathleen – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This essay aims to map uses and attributions of the word "appropriate" as they occur in various disciplines related to children's literature. Three competing interest areas--publishing, education, and societal ideologies--provide insight as to how "appropriate" developed into an abstract cover-word for a variety of outside…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Child Development, Language Usage, Definitions
Research, Policy, and Practice in Early Childhood Literacy
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Young children are able to read before they experience formal reading instruction. They have unique backgrounds, experiences, and capabilities. As a result, young children need to have reading and writing experiences that are of interest to them and are developmentally appropriate for them, which also include the primary grades. This review…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
Free Choice or Adaptable Choice: Self-Determination Theory and Play
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King, Pete; Howard, Justine – American Journal of Play, 2016
The authors explore the use of three basic tenets from Self-Determination Theory--competence, relatedness, and autonomy--for a definition of play that resists the current popular call for play to be freely chosen. They explore whether free play truly exists and whether complete choice constitutes an absolute requirement for children to consider…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Play, Student Motivation, Children
Program Implementation: What Do We Know?
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Bowie, Lillian; Garrett, Sarah B.; Kinukawa, Akemi; McKinney, Krystal; Moore, Kristin A.; Redd, Zakia; Theokas, Christina; Wilson, Brooke – Child Trends, 2006
This report identifies and synthesizes what is known about specific program features for children and youth aged 6-17 that might be manipulated or regulated-components such as staff wages, group size, activities, and theoretical approach that make up the "how" of program implementation. The authors have culled information from the limited extant…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Children, After School Programs, Program Implementation
Coming to School in Connecticut: Accepting Children As They Are. Issue Papers Developed by the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council. Revised.
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Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council. – 1996
This document consists of seven policy issue papers developed by the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council, an action-oriented coalition of statewide organizations concerned with early childhood education. Members include teachers, school administrators, children's librarians, child care providers, Head Start directors, State Department of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Definitions, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Coming to School in Connecticut: Accepting Children as They Are. Issue Papers Developed by the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council.
Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council. – 1990
This document consists of seven policy issue papers developed by the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Council, an action-oriented coalition of statewide organizations concerned with early childhood education. Members include teachers, school administrators, children's librarians, child care providers, Head Start directors, State Department of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Definitions, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices