Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Audience
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| Canada (Toronto) | 1 |
| Florida | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkLand, Nicole; Vidotto, Danica – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This article investigates how particular conceptions of physical development (PD) are enacted in early childhood studies in Toronto, Canada. Following critical childhood studies scholars who emphasize the urgency of re-formulating relationships with taken-for-granted concepts in the field, we argue for a practice of noticing, tracing, naming, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Development, Child Development, Young Children
Zaff, Jonathan F.; Smerdon, Becky – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
In this article, we argue that policymakers in America should reference a coherent, comprehensive, and child-centered framework for children. That is, based on an extensive review of the empirical literature on the first two decades of life, we conclude that policies should address the needs of young people throughout the first two decades of…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Public Policy, Child Welfare
Essa, Eva L., Ed.; Burnham, Melissa M., Ed. – National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2009
Best practice is based on knowledge--not on beliefs or guesses--about how children learn and develop. This volume contains 20 overviews of research on aspects of young children's social, emotional, cognitive, or physical development, as well as how the findings can be applied in the classroom. Originally "Research in Review" articles in NAEYC's…
Descriptors: Research, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Development
Guddemi, Marcy, Ed.; Jambor, Tom, Ed.; Skrupskelis, Audrey, Ed. – 1999
This booklet compiles 30 papers selected from presentations at "Play in a Changing Society: Research, Design, and Application," the fifth triennial national conference of the American Association for the Child's Right to Play. The papers are grouped into five sections; each section contains an introduction to the papers. The sections…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Children
Download full textPARKER, RONALD K. – 1968
DESCRIBED ARE THE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT KNOW HOW (PKH), AN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. DESIGNED TO ATTACK INDIVIDUAL FAMILIAL POVERTY, PKH INVOLVES A PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM BEGINNING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND CONTINUING TO SCHOOL AGE, A SALARIED ASSISTING MOTHERS PROGRAM, A FATHER'S PROGRAM, AND A FAMILY HEALTH…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Kilmer, Sally; And Others – 1971
An appendix to a report entitled "Alternative Federal Day Care Strategies for the 1970's," this volume identifies and reviews possible measures of specific impacts of child care in such areas as the social, emotional, physical and intellectual development and the educational attainment of children; the child rearing attitudes and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Day Care, Economic Factors
