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Child Development And Childcare In Japan, Tokie Anme, Uma Segal
Child Development And Childcare In Japan, Tokie Anme, Uma Segal
Social Work Faculty Works
With increasing numbers of women joining the workforce, there is a need for quality childcare. This project, conducted in Japan and using a large number of participants, sought to standardize an evaluation scale to measure the development of children. The development of children under six years of age (N = 22,819) who are enrolled in childcare programs was evaluated by childcare professionals. Percentiles were calculated (10th, 50th, and 90th percentile points) for each item (total 192) of six developmental subscales (gross motor, fine motor, social competence, communication, vocabulary, and intelligence development). The results supported the validity of this scale in …
A Capsule Of The International History And Philosophy Of Andragogy To 2010, John A. Henschke Edd
A Capsule Of The International History And Philosophy Of Andragogy To 2010, John A. Henschke Edd
Adult Education Faculty Works
This capsule on the International History and Philosophy of Andragogy is mainly limited (with a few exceptions) to a chronological history and the accompanying philosophy of andragogy, in line with when the English language documents were published and personal descriptions of events were written down. Some of these documents, however, presents aspect of the events and ideas which recount the years and contexts prior to the time in which they appeared in published form. To date, more than 330 documents have been discovered, but space limitation in this chapter allowed the inclusion of only a fraction of that number. Each …