Early Childhood Education/article Critique
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Early Childhood Education/article Critique
...the parameters of hotly debated controversy that is raging in early childhood education. This controversy entails those early childhood educators who believe that in "developmentally appropriate practice" (DAP), and those people in authority at the state and national level who insist that curriculums follow an academics-only philosophy that fails to consider what research has shown to be appropriate developmental tasks for each age. This study examines the perspectives of teachers regarding curricular trends; the teaching practices employed by the sample group; and how systemic constraints caused by the emphasis on academics affects teaching practices.
Objectives
The authors state their objectives clearly, which is to examine how the above stated national controversy is playing out in the classroom, and how the ramifications of the current curricular trends have affected the teachings methods of the sample group.
Conceptual Support
In laying out the parameters of the problem being investigated by their study, the authors cite numerous studies that address this controversy, and attendant issues. The authors point out that while everyone agrees on...
