Issues in Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, Teacher Education, & Dissemination of Information
Proceedings of the Lilian Katz Symposium
November 5-7, 2000

Celebrating the Project Approach

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  • Project Approach: Celebrating Human Dimensions of Learning by Mary Jane Elliott (HTML | PDF)
  • The Challenges and the Rewards: A Study of Teachers Undertaking Their First Projects by Sylvia C. Chard (HTML | PDF)
  • Documentation as a Forum and Showcase in an Education Faculty by Anne Hunt, Pamela Nuttall Nason, & Pam Whitty (HTML | PDF)

Designing Curriculum for the Early Years

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  • How Curriculum Frameworks Respond to Developmental Stages: Birth through Age 8 by Diane Trister Dodge &Toni S. Bickart (HTML | PDF)
  • A Comprehensive Approach to Curriculum Development by Lisa Rosenthal & Andrea Michaelson, with Laura Weishaupt (HTML | PDF)
  • Curriculum Development and Head Start Teacher Training: In Two Voices by Janey Marquez & Gloria McGinty (HTML | PDF)

Preparing Teachers to Work with Diverse Populations

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  • “Marcus Did It”: A Review of a Diversity Workshop and Other Creative Education Practices for College Classrooms by Jeanne Helm (HTML | PDF)
  • Preparing Teachers for the Diverse Classroom: A Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Cheryl W. Van Hook (HTML | PDF)
  • A Historical Case Study on Interagency Collaboration for Culturally Diverse Immigrant Children and Families by Navaz Peshotan Bhavnagri, Sue Krolikowski, & Thrity G. Vaswani (HTML | PDF)

Roundtable I

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  • Collaborative, Site-Based Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Program by Patricia E. Ragan (HTML | PDF)
  • The Inner Voice of the Teacher: The Key to Quality by Naama Zoran (HTML | PDF)
  • Classroom Adaptation: A Case Study of a Montessori School by Daungvan Bunnag (HTML | PDF)

Preparing Teachers for the Changing Early Childhood Classroom

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  • Parent-Teacher Partnerships: A Theoretical Approach for Teachers by Carol R. Keyes (HTML | PDF)
  • Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Primary Classroom Practice: Similarities and Differences between Early Childhood and Elementary Prepared Students by Nancy File & Dominic F. Gullo (HTML | PDF)
  • The Teacher as Researcher: An Experimental Approach toward Teaching in the College Classroom and Beyond by Darlene DeMarie (HTML | PDF)

International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Barbados and Mexico

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  • Curriculum Reform in Mexico: Kindergarten Teachers’ Challenges and Dilemmas by Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour, Robert P. Moreno, & Astrid A. Cisneros (HTML | PDF)
  • A Reform Initiative: The Barbadian Experience by Barbara Parris (HTML | PDF)

Enjoying the Diversity of All Classrooms

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  • Examining Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: Possibilities and Pitfalls by Jean Mendoza & Debbie Reese (HTML | PDF)
  • Prod and Pry from Inside Out: Ethnography of an Anti-Bias Support-Supervision Group for Teachers of Young Children by Tamar Jacobson (HTML | PDF)
  • First-and Second-Language Acquisition in Early Childhood by Beverly A. Clark (HTML | PDF)

Roundtable II

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  • “I am like this because I just can’t be different...” Personal and Professional Dimensions of Ana’s Teaching: Some Implications for Teacher Education by Teresa Vasconcelos (HTML | PDF)
  • Enterprise Talk: A Handrail to Integrity and Authenticity by Tom Drummond (HTML | PDF)
  • Nurturing Phonemic Awareness and Alphabetic Knowledge in Pre-kindergartners by Patricia L. Steinhaus (HTML | PDF)

The Project Approach Revisited

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  • Documentation in a Lab School Setting: Teaching New Teachers to Document by Sallee Beneke (HTML | PDF)
  • The Project Approach: Three Avenues of Engagement by Ann-Marie Clark (HTML | PDF)
  • Children’s Self-Assessment by Betty J. Liebovich (HTML | PDF)
  • The Project Approach as a Way of Making Life Meaningful in the Classroom by Eunju Yun (HTML | PDF)

School Change

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  • New Perspectives on Theory-to-Practice: Implications for Transforming Teacher Education and Child Outcomes by Karen VanderVen (HTML | PDF)
  • What Happened After: Professional Development as a Catalyst for a Program Change by Shareen Abramson (HTML | PDF)
  • “Clouds Come from New Hampshire”: Confronting the Challenge of Philosophical Change in Early Childhood Programs by Ellen P. Dodge, Barbara N. Dulik, & Jon A. Kulhanek (HTML | PDF)

Roundtable III

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  • From Play to Literacy: Implications for the Classroom by Sara Wilford (HTML | PDF)
  • Emotions Count: Scaffolding Children’s Representations of Themselves and Their Feelings to Develop Emotional Intelligence by Claudia Shuster (HTML | PDF)
  • Changes of Preschool Children’s Social Strategy (Cognition) and Social Behaviors after Participating in a Cognitive-Social Learning Model of Social Skills Training by Dong Hwa Choi (HTML | PDF)

Dispositions as Goals in Early Childhood Education

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  • Using Science as the Hub of an Integrated Early Childhood Curriculum: The ScienceStart! Curriculum by Lucia French, Kathleen Conezio, & Marylou Boynton (HTML | PDF)
  • Developing the Disposition to be a Reader: The Educator’s Role by Debbie Noyes (HTML | PDF)
  • Affecting the Future: The Role of Appropriate Scaffolding in the Development of Social Competence by Catherine M. Kearn (HTML | PDF)

Preparing Teachers for the Project Approach

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  • Learning through Projects in Early Childhood Teacher Education by Lorraine DeJong (HTML | PDF)
  • Teacher Development through Project-based Learning: The Hollywood Elementary Story by Kathleen W. Glaser (HTML | PDF)
  • Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation by Gera Jacobs (HTML | PDF)

On Communication and Dissemination

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  • Invisible Mentor: Communication Theory and Lilian Katz by Karen L. Peterson (HTML | PDF)

Roundtable IV

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  • Young Children’s Initial Exploration of Computers by Mary Jo Graham & Steven R. Banks (HTML | PDF)
  • Child Maltreatment: Effects on Development and Learning by Barbara Lowenthal (HTML | PDF)
  • Early Head Start: Services for Children with Special Needs and Staff Training Needs by Riyo Kadota, Tess Bennett, & Dawn Thomas (HTML | PDF)

Looking Back—And Looking Ahead

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  • Teachers’ Beliefs and Teaching Beliefs by James Raths (HTML | PDF)
  • Last Class Notes by Lilian G. Katz (HTML | PDF)

  • Contributors' Biographies (HTML | PDF)
  • Select Bibliography of Works by Lilian G. Katz (HTML | PDF)