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Developmental Play: A New Approach to Understanding How All Children Learn through Play
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Essame, Caroline – Childhood Education, 2020
Play is widely acknowledged as being critical for children's development, yet opportunities for play are becoming more scarce for many children.
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Developmental Stages
Awareness through the Body: The Art of Paying Attention to the Attention
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Pinto, Luís Manuel – Childhood Education, 2020
A moon exploration is one example of what Jasmine, and other children in the experimental township of Auroville in India, experience on a regular basis--the Auroville equivalent of a physical education class. It is one of the practices in Awareness Through the Body (ATB), which is described by its creators as "a comprehensive curriculum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Human Body, Learning Activities
An Innovative, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Promoting Child Health: The Reggio Emilia Approach and the Ecological Approach to Family Style Dining Program
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Dev, Dipti A.; Burton, Anna; McBride, Brent A.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope; Garcia, Aileen S. – Childhood Education, 2019
The Reggio Emilia approach is an international example of high-quality early care and education programs and this article offers innovative, practical strategies in which Reggio Emilia-inspired educators can link this approach while implementing the research-based EAT [Ecological Approach to] Family Style Dining program to foster a positive…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Early Childhood Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Child Health
Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Message for American Teachers.
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Cliett, Bill Cole – Childhood Education, 1985
Presents Sylvia Ashton-Warner's (known for the organic education scheme and Key Vocabulary) message for American teachers. (AS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Learning Modalities, Sensory Experience
Letters from England
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Hapgood, Marilyn – Childhood Education, 1971
A view of open education is given in this anecdotal report of visits to primary schools in England. (NH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Expression, Open Education, Parent Participation
Guidelines for Choosing Hardware to Promote Synaesthetic Learning.
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Moore, Omar K. – Childhood Education, 1983
Presents a set of guidelines for selecting hardware to promote students' sensory, cognitive, emotional, and social development. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Guidelines
Why Nature?
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Zeichner, Gwen – Childhood Education, 1975
Discusses the use of natural materials to enrich the learning of hospitalized, emotionally disturbed children. (SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creativity, Ecology, Emotional Disturbances
Shaping the Issues (IV): Implementing Alternatives in Learning
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Gross, Dorothy W. – Childhood Education, 1978
Advocates a change in educational emphasis in which humanism is seen not as an alternative but as a given. Suggests switching focus from measuring end-results to providing options which emphasize process and which reflect two themes, namely active learning from concrete experience and the symbolization of that experience through sensory means. (BR)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
Designing Tomorrow's School Today: The Multi-sensory Experience Center
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Ray, Henry W. – Childhood Education, 1971
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Education
Among the Periodicals.
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Bell, Michael J. – Childhood Education, 1995
Reviews five articles on infants and toddlers and the adults who care for them. Includes discussions of caregiver stability and attachment behavior; infants' sensory abilities; alternative public schooling for pregnant teenagers; and the psychosocial, behavioral, and developmental characteristics of toddlers prenatally exposed to cocaine. (DR)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Cocaine
Toddlers and Tools.
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Castle, Kathryn – Childhood Education, 1985
Discusses the value of tool-use activities to help toddlers develop emerging skills, experience creative expression, and understand means-end relationships. Provides examples of opportunities for using objects as tools, including language acquisition, self-help activities, dramatic play, sensory experiences, and object manipulation. (DST)
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Cognitive Development, Creative Expression, Developmental Tasks
From the Inside Out: Nurturing Aesthetic Response to Nature in the Primary Grades.
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Kemple, Kristen M.; Johnson, Cindy A. – Childhood Education, 2002
Proposes using illustrated fictional literature to promote in young children aesthetic appreciation of human creations and the natural environment. Defines aesthetics and recommends both "good" stories and books with vicarious encounters as two useful categories of stories with moral reasoning accessible to primary grade children. Offers three…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Aesthetics, Childrens Literature