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Bredekamp, Sue – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1993
Maintains that Fowell's and Lawton's article, "An Alternative View of Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Education," misrepresents both content and intent of National Association for Education of Young Children's position statement on developmentally appropriate practices for programs serving four and five year olds, as illustrated…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Position Papers, Preschool Children
Neuman, Susan B.; Copple, Carol; Bredekamp, Sue – 2000
The issues of how and when to teach young children to read and write are sufficiently important and controversial that two professional organizations International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), collaborated on a position statement, based on what is currently known from empirical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy
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Bredekamp, Sue – Young Children, 1997
Summarizes major points of NAEYC's revised position, describing how the revision builds on and expands the previous document through the growing knowledge base and the input of practitioners who used the original publication. Discusses the historical context within which the position statement was written, and summarizes the revisions. Discusses…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Developmental Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Bredekamp, Sue – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Provides background information on the development of NAEYC's position statements on developmentally appropriate practice and clarifies assumptions made by Kessler and others about NAEYC's positions. Offers justification for the developmentalist perspective and suggests an alternative argument for appropriate practice that draws on the strengths…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Developmental Psychology