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Download full textMcLachlan-Smith, Claire – 1991
This paper examines the prevailing theoretical orientation of the "free play" curriculum in New Zealand child care centers. It also introduces an alternative way of understanding how children learn and discusses a literacy-centered curriculum that uses aspects of the free play and alternative curricula. Child care centers in New Zealand…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care Centers, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
