[Review of the book Becoming biliterate: Young children learning different writing systems]
A review of a discussion of the advantages of biliteracy and the complexities of the knowledge, connections and creativity that young children use in the process of becoming biliterate
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[Review of the book Becoming literate in the city: The Baltimore Early Childhood Project]
A longitudinal study examining the literacy development of African American and European American children with low-income and middle-income backgrounds between prekindergarten and third grade
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[Review of the book Beyond listening: Children's perspectives on early childhood services]
A description of the complex nature of a responsive pedagogy of listening to young children
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[Review of the book The birth of Head Start: Preschool educational policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations]
A review of an analysis of the politics of poverty and early childhood education, from the development of Head Start in the Kennedy administration through its development in Johnson’s War on Poverty, to its movement into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Nixon years based on documents from the federal government, private foundations, researchers, the media, and oral history interviews
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[Review of the book The birth of Head Start: Preschool educational policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations]
A review of an analysis of the politics of poverty and early childhood education, from the development of Head Start in the Kennedy administration through its development in Johnson’s War on Poverty, to its movement into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Nixon years based on documents from the federal government, private foundations, researchers, the media, and oral history interviews
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[Review of the book The birth of Head Start: Preschool education policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations]
A review of an analysis of the politics of poverty and early childhood education, from the development of Head Start in the Kennedy administration through its development in Johnson’s War on Poverty, to its movement into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Nixon years based on documents from the federal government, private foundations, researchers, the media, and oral history interviews
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[Review of the book The birth of Head Start: Preschool education policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations]
A review of an analysis of the politics of poverty and early childhood education, from the development of Head Start in the Kennedy administration through its development in Johnson’s War on Poverty, to its movement into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Nixon years based on documents from the federal government, private foundations, researchers, the media, and oral history interviews
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[Review of the book The birth of Head Start: Preschool education policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations]
A review of an analysis of the politics of poverty and early childhood education, from the development of Head Start in the Kennedy administration through its development in Johnson’s War on Poverty, to its movement into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Nixon years based on documents from the federal government, private foundations, researchers, the media, and oral history interviews
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[Review of the book Birth to three matters: Supporting the framework of effective practice]
A review of an overview of the Birth to Three Matters framework for Sure Start, part of the British Government’s strategy to increase childcare provision, intended to support practitioners concerned with the care and education of babies and young children from birth to three
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[Review of the book By a thread: How child care centers hold on to teachers, how teachers build lasting careers]
A review of a book on the experiences of child care workers and on the effects of job turnover on quality in preschools in northern California
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[Review of the book Child care and development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development]
A review of a compilation of key results from the 15-year longitudinal Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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[Review of the book Connections and commitments: Reflecting Latino values in early childhood programs]
A review of a textbook for early education teachers outlining cultural values held by Latino families and ways for teachers to incorporate them into the classroom
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[Review of the book Critical issues in early childhood education]
A review of a postmodern exploration of early childhood including commonly addressed themes (gender, men in the nursery, communication, information and communications technology, diversity) with authors from from around the globe, including Australia, Finland, the UK, and the USA
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[Review of the book Diversity and difference in early childhood education: Issues for theory and practice]
A review of a critical feminist poststructuralist theoretical examination of the normative assumptions concerning early childhood education
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[Review of the book Doing Foucault in early childhood studies: Applying post-structural ideas]
A review of a philosophical challenge to ideas about children and their social worlds in order to develop more equitable practices via an introduction to and an immersion in poststructuralist theories
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[Review of the book Early childhood education: An international encyclopedia]
A review of a four-volume encyclopedia featuring articles on the controversies, theories, policies, practices, organizations, and individuals in the field of early childhood education in the United States (Vols. I-III) and selected other countries (Vol. IV)
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[Review of the book A guide to developing the ICT curriculum for early childhood education]
A theoretical examination Information and Communications Technology impact on how children learn from the British perspective
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[Review of the book A guide to developing the ICT curriculum for early childhood education]
A review of a discussion of how Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can contribute to children's learning, how it can be integrated into a play based curriculum and how it relates to key areas of learning such as collaboration, communication, exploration and socio-dramatic play
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[Review of the book A guide to developing the ICT curriculum for early childhood education]
A review of a practical guide to information and communications technology curriculum development, designed for practitioners, managers and curriculum developers in early childhood education
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[Review of the book The Head Start debates]
A review of a compilation of essays on Head Start, analyzing the program's goals, effectiveness, and future improvement, with a focus on school readiness, child health, and socioemotional development
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[Review of the book Leading early childhood learning communities: What principals should know and be able to do]
A review of book for early education teachers outlining cultural values held by Latino families and ways for teachers to incorporate them into the classroom
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[Review of the book Learning from Sure Start: Working with young children and their families]
A review of a collaboratively written examination of a Sure Start local program in Sheffield by university-based researchers and Sure Start practitioners
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[Review of the book Minding the children: Child care in America from colonial times to the present]
A review of an account of how children were reared during times of early colonial religious fervor, slavery, wars, fanatic utopianism, depression, and mass immigration up to the present time. over the past four centuries
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[Review of the book Negotiating critical literacies with young children]
A review of an account of the author’s implementation of a critical literacy curriculum in her classroom of children aged 3-5 in Toronto, Canada
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[Review of the book Nordic childhoods and early education: Philosophy, research, policy and practice in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden]
An examination of the historical and political development of early childhood education in the Nordic Countries
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