This two-volume annotated bibliography cites 702 articles published in 1984 on a variety of issues related to preschool education in several Eastern and Western countries, including France, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Belgium, Canada, the United States, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Ireland, East Germany, West Germany, and Rumania. Entries are classified into 13 main categories: (1) social and ideological basis of preschool education; (2) theoretical basis of preschool education; (3) organization of preschool education; (4) educators of preschool children; (5) play; (6) preschool instruction; (7) care of health and physical education; (8) social and emotional development and moral education; (9) speech and language education; (10) intellectual development and education of the intellect; (11) aesthetic education; (12) education of children requiring special care; and (13) the environment surrounding the child, including buildings, playgrounds, equipment, and facilities. (RH)