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ERIC Number: EJ337505
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Formal Education and Early Childhood Education: An Essential Difference.
Elkind, David
Phi Delta Kappan, v67 n9 p631-36 May 1986
This paper declares war against the miseducation of young children, who learn best through direct encounters rather than through formalized inculcation of symbolic rules. A variety of socioeconomic forces (including the civil rights and women's movements) are forcing preschoolers into learning environments originally designed for school-age children. (MLH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Childhood Needs, Competence, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents, Learning Readiness, Self Esteem, Social Change
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Administrators; Teachers; Parents; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Miseducation; Self Reliance