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Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Uses a narrative methodology to explore a vision of early childhood practice as developmental, respecting individual differences, responsive to social and cultural contexts, democratic, and holistic in relation to a specific teaching experience. Argues that social conditions beyond teachers' control make appropriate practice difficult for…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1996
Three case studies explore the organization of time and its intersection with practical knowledge to influence teachers' use of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in early childhood settings. If time is viewed as a rigid production schedule, opportunities for DAP are obstructed and time pressure undercuts children's play, resulting in a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne; Kirby-Smith, Susan – Young Children, 1998
Explores the impact on children's activities and staff behavior of removing clocks and watches from an early childhood classroom. Describes how removing old patterns of time organization required teacher reflection about taken-for-granted scripts for time and permitted them to invent new scripts that were more supportive of developmentally…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Caregivers, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment
Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne – Canadian Children, 2003
Describes an activity in the "Scuola Neruda" in Reggio Emilia, Italy in which 5-year-olds create a school play area for 4-year-olds that will remain as a contribution of their class, focusing on how this gift is a gesture of reciprocity, and therefore truly creative. Recounts a child's selection of a location for her sculpture to…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emotional Experience, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Examines how the forms used by teachers to document planning and assess children's progress affect three child care center teachers' practice and expectations for young children. Narratives are constructed using qualitative methods to show how requirements for documentation may lead teachers to override goals of developmentally appropriate…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWien, Carol Anne – Canadian Children, 2002
Presents a case study of a fourth-year kindergarten teacher who has altered her teaching from academic to more developmentally appropriate ways and now attempts to incorporate new curriculum expectations. Examines how her teaching practice evolved, her approach to new curriculum expectations, and what tensions, worries, successes and concerns…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Problems
Wien, Carol Anne – 1995
Based on observations, interviews, and review of videotapes with teachers, this book examines why developmentally appropriate practice is difficult to construct in early childhood settings. It focuses particularly on some teachers' simultaneous allegiance to two contradictory frameworks of practice, termed developmentally appropriate practice and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Caregivers, Classroom Environment, Day Care
