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EJ337505 EA520086
Title: Formal Education and Early Childhood Education: An Essential Difference.Author(s): Elkind, David
Source: Phi Delta Kappan, v67 n9 p631-36 May 1986
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJOCT1986
Target Audience: Administrators; Teachers; Parents; Practitioners
This paper
declares war against the miseducation of young children, who learn
best through direct encounters rather than through formalized inculcation
of symbolic rules. A variety of socioeconomic forces (including
the civil rights and women's movements) are forcing preschoolers
into learning environments originally designed for school-age children.
(MLH)
Descriptors: Child Development; Child Psychology; *Childhood Needs;
Competence; *Day Care; *Early Childhood Education; Employed Parents;
*Learning Readiness; Self Esteem; Social Change
Identifiers: Miseducation; Self Reliance
