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Fowell, Nancy; Lawton, Joseph – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992
Presents a view of developmentally appropriate practice that differs from that of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). A program that incorporates this view is described in terms of its theoretical perspectives and classroom practices and compared to the NAEYC description of appropriate and inappropriate practice.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
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Cesarone, Bernard – Childhood Education, 2003
Summarizes recent ERIC documents and journal articles, and highlights some World Wide Web resources that describe, evaluate, or compare various curricula or instructional methods, such as Creative Curriculum, High/Scope, the Montessori Method, Waldorf Schools, and Direct Instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Constructivism (Learning), Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Smith, Miriam W.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1994
Describes the nature of children's oral language experiences in Head Start and other preschool programs serving low-income families and relates those experiences to broader features of the classrooms' programs. Finds that small class size, teacher education levels, and developmentally appropriate curricula are positively associated with high…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Attainment
Elicker, James – 2000
Despite dramatic increases in the percentage of 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day kindergarten, initial discussions about whether to offer public full-day kindergarten are still controversial in many communities. This report examines claims about benefits and detriments of full-day kindergarten, presents research findings, and describes reasonable…
Descriptors: Alternate Day Schedules, Comparative Analysis, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Practices
Jaruszewicz, Candace – 1994
This paper examines the preschool programs of the Reggio Emilia region of Northern Italy, describing the role of Loris Malaguzzi in the founding of the municipal preschools in the region after the Second World War and discussing the theoretical and philosophical basis of the child-centered, developmentally appropriate, art-centered Reggio Emilia…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Comparative Analysis, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education