ED413050 PS025854
Title: Integrated Curriculum and Developmentally Appropriate Practice:
Birth to Age Eight. SUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquires
and Insights.
Author(s): Hart, Craig H., Ed.; Burts, Diane C., Ed.; Charlesworth,
Rosalind, Ed.
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1997
Notes: Foreword by Sue Bredekamp.
ISBN: 0-7914-3359-50-7914-3360-9
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: State University of New York Press, State University
Plaza, Albany, NY 12246; www:http://www.sunypress.edu (hardback: ISBN:-0-7914-3359-5;
paperback: ISBN-0-7914-3360-9, $21.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Collected works--General (020); Information Analysis
(070)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEMAR1998
A holistic
approach to early childhood education requires attention not only
to what we know about child development and its implications for
teaching, but also to the content of the curriculum. This collection
of chapters on research and practice on developmentally appropriate
integrated curricula is combined in a manner to assist theorists,
researchers, parents, school administrators and teachers understand
how to match early childhood teaching practices to the integrated
manner in which young children naturally think and learn. The chapters
are as follows: (1) "Integrated Developmentally Appropriate
Curriculum: From Theory and Research to Practice" (Hart, Burts,
and Charlesworth); (2) "How Children Develop and Why It Matters:
The Foundation for the Developmentally Appropriate Integrated Early
Childhood Curriculum" (Krogh); (3) "Mathematics in the
Developmentally Appropriate Integrated Curriculum" (Charlesworth);
(4) "Science in the Developmentally Appropriate Integrated
Curriculum" (Lind); (5) "Music in the Developmentally
Appropriate Integrated Curriculum" (Kenney); (6) "Physical
Education in the Developmentally Appropriate Integrated Curriculum"
(Payne and Rink); (7) "Social Studies in the Developmentally
Appropriate Integrated Curriculum" (Seefeldt); (8) "Visual
Arts in the Developmentally Appropriate Integrated Curriculum"
(Colbert); (9) "Integrating Literacy Learning for Young Children:
A Balanced Literacy Perspective" (Reutzel); (10) "Social
Development and Behavior in the Integrated Curriculum" (Dewolf
and Benedict); (11) "Developmentally Appropriate Guidance and
the Integrated Curriculum" (Hyson and Christiansen); (12) "Assessment
in an Integrated Curriculum" (Fleege); (13) "The Integrated
Curriculum and Students with Disabilities" (Dugger-Wadsworth);
(14) "Diversity and the Multicultural Perspective" (Stremmel);
(15) "Integrating Home and School: Building a Partnership"
(Larsen and Haupt); and (16) Informing Parents, Administrators,
and Teachers about Developmentally Appropriate Practices" (Haupt
and Ostlund). (SD)
Descriptors: *Child Development; Cultural Pluralism; *Curriculum
Development; Developmental Stages; Developmental Tasks; Early Childhood
Education; Integrated Activities; *Integrated Curriculum; Learning
Activities; Learning Strategies; Literacy; Mathematics Instruction;
Music; Physical Education; Sciences; Social Studies; Student Evaluation;
Teaching Methods; Units of Study; Visual Arts
Identifiers: Developmental Theory; *Developmentally Appropriate
Programs; *Integrated Skill Development
