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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Early Childhood Curriculum Reform in China: Perspectives from Examining Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in Chinese Literacy Teaching
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Li, Hui; Wang, X. Christine; Wong, Jessie Ming Sin – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Two waves of reform have been conducted in China since the 1980s to transform its early childhood curriculum into a Western-style, progressive model. Western curricula and programs such as the Montessori method, the project approach, the Reggio Emilia method, and the high/scope method have been imported and adopted all over the country. But the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Development, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Transformation of Public Kindergartens in Shenzhen: Internet Study of Public Views
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Li, Hui; Wang, X. Christine – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Since the early 1990s, the central government of China has been gradually privatizing early childhood education. As the main precursor of this large-scale reform in the country, Shenzhen has witnessed several innovative as well as radical changes. The existing public early childhood settings in the city were therefore forced to transform into…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Quality Control