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EJ479986 PS521611
Title: Making Parents Your Allies.Author(s): Stipek, Deborah; And Others
Source: Young Children, v49 n3 p4-9 Mar 1994
Publication Date: 1994
ISSN: 0044-0728
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055); Journal articles (080)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUL1994
Discusses
ways in which early childhood teachers can educate parents about
the necessity for developmentally appropriate education at the preschool
and primary levels, despite widespread parental preferences for
an inappropriate, structured academic curriculum. Teachers can explain
the purposes of developmentally appropriate curriculum to parents,
provide them with appropriate suggestions and materials, and invite
them to school programs. (MDM)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education; Elementary School Curriculum;
*Parent Attitudes; *Parent Education; Parent School Relationship;
*Parent Teacher Cooperation; Preschool Curriculum; *Student Centered
Curriculum
Identifiers: *Developmentally Appropriate Programs; Developmentally
Inappropriate Practices; Parent Teacher Relationship
