Talk:Early childhood education

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[edit] What is...

The "What is..." sectis ripped from the literature or homepage of some organisation or program. How do the references to "The first national goal..." and "The focus of this program" (what program?) make sense in a wikipedia article? Kenji Yamada 19:15 Dec 17, 2005

As best as I can tell from a web search, this material seems to have been lifted whole cloth from a 1992 paper by S. Bredekamp, R.A. Knuth, L.G. Kunesh, and D.D. Shulman of the North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL). There was a link to this article, now dead, under "References," but referencing something and pulling whole paragraphs of text are not the same thing. This seems to be a likely copyright violation (as well as being incoherent in the context of the article). So I'm pulling the whole thing. --Stellmach 14:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Job possibilities

I do not understand the "Job possibilities" section, still less why it appears twice. Children under 9 are not allowed jobs in most of the world, so who does this apply to? Is this their eventual possible job? If so, why choose these ones.

(Now fixed) Notinasnaid 18:39, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I suppose that was cleaned up... because now it clearly refers to job possibilites for adults who have gone through an education in early childhood. I found that section rather helpful and unique, as I am in a grad program for early childhood. I do have some constructive criticism however... This page clearly needs more intra-wiki links to relevant pages on theorists, approaches to early childhood, and links to current topics in the field. here are some rough suggestions

Piaget - stages of cognitive development Vygotsky - importance of socialization, zone of proximal development Howard Gardner - Multiple intelligence theory Froebel - kindergarten Cognitive Science play kindergarten anti-bias curriclum child protection services parenting infants, crying toddlers, walking preschool nursery school Head Start Universal Pre-K Montessori British Infant Schools special education etc

-Sean Fredrick Keane

[edit] Cleanup tag added

While on Random article patrol I stumbled across this. I know nothing about childcare, so I can't contribute anything meaningful. But if anyone has any idea of how to re-organise this article so it actually makes sense: please do. Megapixie 10:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge "Early childhood" article here

There's no actual information in the Early childhood article, so perhaps "merge" isn't the right word. I think that article needs to be turned into a redirect.—GraemeMcRaetalk 16:39, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reorder

This article seems to jump between the services provided for childcare and the way children develop. So i reordered. Also i had to move the american we speech to its own american section.(really it needs to be rewritten or removed but i dont like removing information.)

  • Child development - bulleted seeing their order is irrelevant
  • i've removed the jobs that don't have contact with children.

--Whywhywhy 09:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

What is "american we speech"? There shouldn't be any first person language at all. --DanielCD 14:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup still needed

This article is still in terrible shape and needs a lot of rewriting to deal with a number of "should" statements. I also would not trust the information presented to be reliable; it sounds like someone expounding on the topic from a particular point of view. -- Beland 00:34, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] russian/romanian orphanages?

The reference to the degrading effects of Russian/Romanian orphanages needs proper citation.

Why not just go with orphanages in general? The problem of children in group care failing to thrive is an old one. I'll see if I can find an article on the topic. MinorityView 03:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Would this article do? http://soar.wichita.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/10057/829/1/136.pdf MinorityView 19:26, 8 September 2007 (UTC)