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Approaches to early childhood and elementary education / Francis Wardle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wardle, Francis, 1947-
- Series:
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Early childhood education.
- Education, Elementary.
- Child development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (474 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Francis Wardle covers a vast range of different philosophical and practical approaches to early education, from Free/Open schools and Waldorf education, to the Core Curriculum and the learning standards approach of the U.S. federal No Child Left Behind Act.
- Contents:
- John Dewey and the Bank Street approach
- Constructivist approach
- The high/scope approach
- Montessori
- Waldorf, British infant/primary schools, and free schools
- Contexts: Bronfenbrenner and Vygotsky
- Reggio Emilia
- The standards and core knowledge curricular approaches
- Global approaches to early childhood and elementary education
- Exceptional children
- Multicultural and multilingual education
- Brain-based learning
- Federal and state programs
- Religious approaches
- Behavioral approaches
- The project approach to learning.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61728-140-9
- OCLC:
- 923662603
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