Research: Early Childhood Education: Issues for a New Decade
Abstract The past two decades have provided early childhood educators with new insights, information and additional questions regarding the care and education of young children. This article provides a review of the past decade and suggests issues that should be addressed in the decade of the '80s. Consensus-seeking on these issues should be of interest to all persons concerned with young children.—N.L.Q.
Early Childhood Education: A Selective Overview of Current Issues and Trends
Despite the current economic decline, with cutbacks in services found everywhere, especially in education, it seems clear that early childhood education is nevertheless experiencing an unprecedented acceptance and that it is destined to undergo further growth. This growth is occurring despite the fact that early childhood educators are not always clear about what it is they are trying to accomplish and how they intend to go about accomplishing it. It is not that they are without objectives, but that they have multiple goals that become difficult to sort out and keep track of. And there seems to be an aversion to setting priorities. Often, the goals that rise to prominence are simply those that seem to be within reach. Further, since the source of funding of many programs is usually external and distant and tends to dictate how a program's goals are to be defined, the issue of settling firmly on objectives and priorities becomes less compelling. In seeming to be ready to provide a service that can be accommodated to almost any condition and demand, early childhood education gives the appearance of being both adaptable and flabby. As the youngest child in the educational family, it seems ready to be tugged wherever the grownups want it to go.
The early training project for disadvantaged children: a report after five years.
DESCRIPTORS*CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED, TRAINING OBJECTIVES EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, CONTROL GROUPS, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, HOME VISITS, TEST RESULTS, DISADVANTAGED ENVIRONMENT, NEGROES, *LONGITUDINAL STUDIES, *ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS, *EARLY EXPERIENCE, *ACHIEVEMENT GAINS, LEARNING MOTIVATION, ITPA, STANFORD BINET, PPVT, WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE, GATES READING READINESS TEST, METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT TEST