Perspectives on developmentally appropriate practice
By: editor: Stuart Reifel.
Contributors: Reifel, Robert Stuart.
Series: Advances in early education and day care -- 5; Advances in early education and day care -- 5; Advances in early education and day care -- v. 5.
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Education, Preschool.; Early childhood education.; Nursery schools.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: The LSU studies: building a research base for developmentally appropriate practice / Rosalind Charlesworth...et al.; value: Is child-centered early childhood education really better? / Deborah J. Stipek; value: Caregiver practices and beliefs in child care varying in developmental appropriateness and quality / Susan Kontos and Loraine Dunn; value: Measuring the environment in public school preschools for disadvantaged children: what is developmentally appropriate? / Dale C. Farran...et al.; value: The relationship of specific developmentally appropriate teaching practices in preschool to children's skills in first grade / Ellen Frede, Ann Austin, and Shelley Lindauer; value: From a service to mothers to the developmental management of children: day nursery care in Canada, 1890-1960 / Donna Varge; value: Training teachers to implement developmentally appropriate practice / Peter L. Mangione and Helen Maniates; value: Gender and play in nursery and preschool: a view from the frontier / Barbara Scales and Jenny Cook-Gumperz; value: Parent involvement in urban early childhood education: a Vygotskian approach / Linda May Fitzgerald and Artin Göncü; value: Curricular issues in early education for culturally and linguistically diverse populations / Theresa H. Escobedo.