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Cooper, Patricia M. – University of Chicago Press, 2009
Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Children Need", Patricia M. Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley's many books and articles,…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Educational Philosophy
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Egan, Kieran – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1983
Education, as a rational business, has largely ignored children's fantasies. Rather than dismissing fantasy, as both traditional and progressive educators have, the educational task is to begin the process of linking to the real world those basic concepts which make fantasy so engaging and meaningful to children. (IS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages, Educational History
1998
This document contains three papers from a symposium on adult learning in the workplace. "Coaching: Facilitating the Training of Subject-Matter Specialists. Development and Evaluation of an Andragogical Model of Continuing Vocational Education" (Jost Reischmann) describes the new insights into the problems of continuing vocational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Continuing Education