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Verma, Amita – NIE Journal, 1970
Cites advantages to be gained by establishing more laboratory nursery schools through out India. (WY)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Laboratory Schools, Nursery Schools, Preschool Education
Khalakdina, Margaret – NIE Journal, 1970
Teachers' acumen and imagination can shape a syllabus to help India's rural preschooler prepare for the technological era in which he will be an adult. (WY)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Demography
Stabile, Carole Cummings – 1978
This master's thesis gives an overview of education in India from ancient times to the present and presents data from brief visits to seven schools which provide early childhood education in the Union Territory of Delhi. The schools visited were either parochial, public, government corporation, or private schools. Data collection problems…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, History, Masters Theses
Moore, Bob H.; Moreno-Milne, Nidia – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
Described is the program at the Okhla Training Center for the Retarded, the only center of its kind in New Dehli, India, which offers an educational and training program for the mentally retarded individuals (4 to 14 years and older). (SBH)
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Institutes (Training Programs)
Peer reviewedVerma, Amita – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1979
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Educational Programs, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedProchner, Larry – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2002
Explores the tension between formal and nonformal approaches to preschool education in India, through discussion of the preschool program of the Government of India's Integrated Child Development Services that targets disadvantaged children and private nursery schools operating on a commercial basis. Asserts that although a nonformal approach is…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Early Intervention, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Peer reviewedSwaminathan, Mina – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1994
Examines the history and current status of early childhood teacher training in India. Describes the Bal Sevika Training program, launched in 1961, and the Integrated Child Development Services program, instituted in 1975 to provide a wide range of educational and nutritional services to preschool children and their families. (MDM)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Family Programs
Peer reviewedMuralidharan, Rajalakshmi – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1992
Describes the early childhood components of India's National Policy on Education (1986), focusing particularly on the training of grassroots level personnel or Anganwadi workers, preschool teachers, creche workers, middle-level personnel, and project officers. Reviews training innovations, including mobile creches, home-based programs,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Child Resource World Review, 1984
Articles contained in this first issue of the journal "Child Resource World Review" present information from a worldwide network of day care professionals. Specifically, Alice Honig compares child care in different countries. Sherrie K. Akinsanya reports on stressful aspects of early schooling for children in Nigeria. Sue Owen discusses…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Classroom Design, Community Development, Comparative Analysis
Young, Mary Eming – 1996
Early childhood programs have been shown to enhance school readiness, increase the efficacy of investments in primary schools and human capital formation, foster beneficial social behavior and, thereby, lessen social welfare costs, and promote community development. The World Bank has directed investment toward young children, including supporting…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare
