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ED407114 PS025325
Title:Child Development Knowledge and Teachers of Young Children.
Author(s): Katz, Lilian G.
Author Affiliation: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Champaign, IL.(BBB34257)
Pages: 83
Publication Date: February 1997
Notes: For related document, see ED 385 374.
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. (EDD00036)
Contract No: RR93002007
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC04 Plus Postage.
Availability: Publications Office, ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Children's Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-7469; phone: 800-583-4135; fax: 217-244-7732; e-mail: ericeece@uiuc.edu (Catalog No. 217, $10, plus $1.50 shipping in U.S.; $3 shipping outside
U.S.).
Language: English
Document Type: ERIC product (071); Opinion papers (120)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Illinois
Journal Announcement: RIESEP1997
This monograph explores issues around the position of child development knowledge
in early childhood education. Part 1 of the monograph raises questions regarding
the role of such
knowledge in teaching young children and its place in teacher
education. This section considers the definition of "development," the
type of child development knowledge that should be learned, the potential for
professional agreement of a body of child development knowledge and principles
that must be mastered by students, and reasons why the role of child
development
knowledge in pedagogy has become a contentious issue. Part 2 outlines how understanding
the nature of child development can be used to generate basic principles of
practice
for early childhood education that satisfy developmental criteria. This section
proposes 19 principles of early childhood practices that have implications for
planning curricula and programs for young children. Included in this monograph
are selected ERIC annotated bibliographies on early childhood teacher education
and developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. (Contains
approximately 25 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Annotated
Bibliographies; *Child Development; Early Childhood Education; Individual Development;
*Knowledge Base for Teaching; Preschool Teachers; Teacher
Education; Young
Children
