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Kalinowski, Michael – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
Since 1809, there has almost always been a school in Macworth Point (now Falmouth), Maine, just north of Portland. In 1916 a brick, one-room schoolhouse was built on this property and named Pine Grove School. Unfortunately, it burned down a few days before the school opened and was rebuilt, and then expanded in 1941. In 1984, after a brief…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Montessori Method, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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de Groot Kim, Sonja – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
This study traces patterns of attendance, times of arrival and departure, and policies and practices surrounding enrollment and moving children from classroom to classroom in a child care center. It appears that children's efforts to acquire competence in developing friendships with their peers not only depends on their own capacities, but is also…
Descriptors: Play, Attendance Patterns, Young Children, Friendship
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Kato, Tsuguhiko; Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra – Childhood Education, 2008
Teachers at the Freeburg Early Childhood Program know that experimentation with physical science is of great interest to young children, and can begin as early as the age of 3. The constructivist teachers at this experimental school at the University of Northern Iowa worked for six years to develop a center-based approach to physical science with…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Experimental Schools, Young Children, Physical Sciences
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Alcock, Sophie; Cullen, Joy; St George, Alison – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
This paper explores young children's rhythmic, musical, humorous and playful communication in the context of empowering themselves to create meaningful curriculum during teacher-controlled routine morning-tea times in an early childhood education centre. The data, presented as "events", formed part of an interpretive qualitative study…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Early Childhood Education, Participant Observation, Research Methodology
Russell, Fay F.; And Others – 1985
Intended to help developers of early intervention programs for children with developmental disabilities, the book provides philosophy, methods, and procedures based on experiences of the Child Development Center of the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences. The first section presents a program description including information on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Child Development Centers, Developmental Disabilities
Ricard, Richard J.; Brown, Angela; Sanders, Jana – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Classroom Research
Cassidy, Jack; Sanders, Jana – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers
Jensen, Ina; Rechis, Ruth; Luna, J. Don – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Childrens Literature
Montague, Nicole S.; Marroquin, Christine; Lucido, Frank – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, College School Cooperation
Rodriguez, Stephen; Williams, Morgan – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers