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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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You Can Learn Something Every Day! Children Talk about Learning in Kindergarten--Traces of Learning Cultures
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Alvestad, Marit – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2011
Discussion of learning in the kindergarten context is growing both in Norway and internationally. This article focuses on some central aspects of learning described by groups of children aged 4-6 years, in three Norwegian kindergartens. The research concerns children's descriptions of aspects of learning experienced in their everyday life in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
"The Value is Enormous--It's Priceless I Think!": New Zealand Preschool Teachers' Understandings of the Early Childhood Curriculum in New Zealand--A Comparative Perspective
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Alvestad, Marit; Duncan, Judith – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article examines a group of New Zealand preschool teachers' perspectives on their early childhood curriculum--"Te Whariki: He Whariki Maatauranga mo ngaa Mokopuna o Aotearoa" (Ministry of Education, 1996). In this discussion we focus on the teachers' understandings of the meaning, value and focus of this curriculum document. This is part of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Evaluation