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Miller Edward & Almon Joan (2009). Crisis in the Kindergarten : Why Children Need to Play in School. College Park, MD : Alliance for Childhood.
Added by: Marie Gaussel (21 Apr 2014 15:31:39 Europe/Paris) |
| Resource type: Book ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780982375105 BibTeX citation key: Miller2009  |
Categories: Apprentissages et psychologie Creators: Almon, Miller Publisher: Alliance for Childhood (College Park, {MD}) |
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Crisis in the Kindergarten includes new research showing that many kindergartens spend 2 to 3 hours per day instructing and testing children in literacy and math with only 30 minutes per day or less for play. In some kindergartens there is no playtime at all. The same didactic, test-driven approach is entering preschools. But these methods, which are not well grounded in research, are not yielding long-term gains. Meanwhile, behavioral problems and preschool expulsion, especially for boys, are soaring. The negative implications of the current approaches to early education are huge and the needed changes can only be accomplished when parents, educators, school administrators and policy makers are educated and take action together.
Added by: Marie Gaussel |