Issues in Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, Teacher Education, & Dissemination of Information

Proceedings of the Lilian Katz Symposium
November 5-7, 2000

Dianne Rothenberg, Ed. 2002

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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