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"Building Up": Block Play After September 11, Lisa Edstrom
"Building Up": Block Play After September 11, Lisa Edstrom
Occasional Paper Series
Like most people in New York City, the children in Edstrom's class were affected by the events of September 11. However, not until five weeks later did these particular five- and six year-olds begin to make sense of what happened. Through the use of block play, they were able to explore the difficult emotions and questions we all had about the World Trade Center attack
Safe, Patricia Lent
Safe, Patricia Lent
Occasional Paper Series
The first four sections of this essay chronicle her attempts to make sense of September 11 in the succeeding weeks and months. The final section—”Corn, Beans, and Squash”—was written to and for her students at the end of the school year.
Racing To The Top: Who’S Accounting For The Children?, Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson
Racing To The Top: Who’S Accounting For The Children?, Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson
Occasional Paper Series
The authors argue that teachers are accountable not to some narrow “top” but to the rhythms and rhymes of their developing students.
Early Childhood Care And Education For All In 2015: Is This A Mirage In Nigeria?, Esther A. Oduolowu
Early Childhood Care And Education For All In 2015: Is This A Mirage In Nigeria?, Esther A. Oduolowu
Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective
This paper examines the possibility of the provision of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) for all children from birth to age five in Nigeria by 2015. In the paper are the history of preschool education in Nigeria) situation of ECCE worldwide in the 1980s) and the, global trends in basic education in the 1990s. The paper also examines the limitations of the attempt and offers probable solutions.