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Where Do the Children Play?: An Investigation of the Intersection of Nature, Early Childhood Education and Play
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Brown, Jeanne M.; Kaye, Candace – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
What is the role of early education and care in advocating and providing for nature play in an era when children's exposure to nature play and risk is threatened? This review deconstructs the word "nature," as well as discusses nature's role in centuries of theorists and early childhood care pioneers. The article concludes with some…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Investigations, Ecology
Children in Civil Law: The Tort of Negligence.
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Sheehy, N. P.; Chapman, A. J. – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Examines judgments involving children under the tort of negligence, using All England Law Reports for 1939 to 1983 and some cases from other countries. Discusses "contributory negligence,""parental liability,""responsibility,""allurement," and "res-ipsa loquitur." Suggests more use of developmental…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Responsibility, Children, Childrens Rights
Children: Rights, Education and Equal Opportunity.
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Soobiah, Chris – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Examines the implications for early childhood education of certain countries' failure to entrench children's rights in statutes or advocate forcefully on behalf of children. Argues for the rights of the child, especially where there is discrimination or inequality or where early education has to contend with excessive population growth. (BG)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Advocacy, Childrens Rights, Early Childhood Education
Sexual Abuse of Children: The Local Government Response in the U.K.
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Vorhaus, Gwyn; Evans, Roy – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Discusses the need for a coherent framework for tackling child abuse. Topics include local government organizational issues that affect policy development, general issues affecting policy, policy areas that relate to decision making, training, evaluation, identification, interviews of children, action following investigation, and long-term…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Children, Community Services, Foreign Countries
Law and the Professional Role: A Comparison of Aspects of Children's Legislation in England and New Zealand.
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Ryburn, Murray – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Considers the key elements of a permanence philosophy in child care and protection that has dominated thinking in the United Kingdom for 15 years. Highlights the fundamentally different stance taken in new children's legislation in New Zealand and argues that the preconditions have been more clearly established for collaboration and partnership…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children
Everybody's Ethics: What Future for Handicapped Babies?
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Shearer, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Discusses the questions of who should make the decisions as to whether children born with severe disabilities should live or die and what criteria should be used to make such decisions. Describes the ethical positions of various medical and advocate groups in the U.S. and Great Britain and the factors to be considered in making these decisions.…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Childrens Rights, Decision Making, Ethics
Preparing Early Childhood Personnel to Be Pro-Active, Policy-Making Professionals.
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Ebbeck, Marjory – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Discusses characteristics of professionalism and the professional. Considers early childhood education professionals' skills, attributes, and attitudes; their obligation to develop and articulate their knowledge base; and their obligation to advocate on behalf of children and their families. (BG)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Early Childhood Education, Family School Relationship, Preschool Teachers
Advocacy and Parents of Special Needs Children.
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Pardeck, John T. – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Focuses on the rights of special needs children in the schooling process. Outlines a number of laws that protect the educational rights of exceptional children, noting that, unfortunately, school systems often fail to provide all the services needed. Presents skills and strategies parents need to conduct advocacy on behalf of their children with…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Childrens Rights, Disabilities, Elementary Education
The Present and Future of OMEP: Making Membership Worthwhile. Guest Editorial Comment.
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Bishop, Jay – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Discusses present and future organizational role and structure of OMEP in attempts to preserve the virtues of young children and confront the problems encountered in children's daily lives around the world. The value of early childhood educators in the care and development of young children is emphasized. (DST)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Childhood Needs