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Through the Night: Helping Parents and Sleepless Infants by Dilys Daws
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Guidelines for the Adaptation of Preschool Environments to Integrate Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Children
No full textIntegrating children with disabilities into various early childhood settings is becoming more and more common. Parents, teachers and legislators realize that classes need to reflect the larger society. Though research indicates that children benefit from such arrangements, there is still resistance and barriers to this inclusion. One of the barriers to integration is a lack of training and information about children with disabilities.
The focus of this article is on deaf and hard of hearing children. The authors believe that a quality early childhood program can be successfully expanded to accommodate deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing children, with in-service training, the addition of staff who can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing children and with physical changes. Modifications to aspects of the environment are discussed. The authors interpret environment to include a visually stimulating, safe physical layout; deaf or hard of hearing as well as trained hearing staff members to work with deaf and hard of hearing children; the most appropriate communication milieu, and appropriate curriculum activities
Children on Playgrounds: Research Perspectives and Applications by Craig H. Hart
No full textReviewed Work: Children on Playgrounds: Research Perspectives and Applications by Craig H. Har
Amiable Space in the Schools of Reggio Emilia: An Interview with Leila Gandini
No full textThe early childhood schools of Reggio Emilia in the north of Italy have been acclaimed in recent years as one of the best programs in the world. Young children here are encouraged to work together exploring their world, and to express their ideas and understanding through a variety of symbolic languages. The skill, thoughtfulness and creativity evident in their work have surprised and delighted people who have visited the schools, or seen their travelling exhibit, The Hundred Languages of Children
The Relationship Between Preference and Environment in the School Playground
No full textA photograph sorting task was employed to investigate the relationship between children\u27s preferences for sites of their school playground, and environmental dimensions associated with these sites. The sample was comprised of 20 boys and 20 girls, with a mean age of nine years five months. Adaptability (how many activities a site supported) emerged as the strongest predictor of both boys\u27 and girls\u27 preferences. Naturalness and colourfulness also emerged as significant predictors of boys\u27 and girls\u27 preferences. A significant gender effect was also observed with risk, oldness and privateness, (negatively weighted) being significant predictors of girls\u27 preferences. The gender differences and the importance of adaptability in the playground, provide useful guide-lines for playground design and construction
Not of Whole Cloth Made: The Consumer Environment of Children
No full textThe environment in which children today grow and develop is in many ways a consumer environment. Children, as consumers, have captured the attention of marketers and consumer researchers. Social scientists, however, have yet to address children\u27s consumption in a more than piecemeal fashion. This paper provides one perspective on children\u27s consumption through an examination of their consumer environment. Rather than taking a position that is either for or against consumption, this paper views consumption as an integral process of daily life; as such, it is a powerful medium of social reproduction. Empirical discussion is based on US research, but global implications of consumer culture are also assessed. Examining three major sites of consumption (neighborhood, stores and schools), particular emphasis is placed on attention to the ways "inner city" settings shape the consumer environment of children. Recent developments and changes in the relationships between media and child-oriented industries are also discussed, in particular, the dramatic increase in the licensing industry
Child Development Theory and Planning for Neighbourhood Play
No full textPlaying is defined here as imitation whereby children become acquainted with the world of adults. In this sense playing is an essential component of development. According to this definition, easy access to the world of adults is a prerequisite if play is to fulfill its role for development. In large cities the conditions of urban life make this access to the immediate surroundings of children\u27s homes difficult. Conditions for an urban environment with a human dimension are outlined. In particular the place and function of a playground in a neighbourhood are explored. Specifically, to fulfill its role, a playground should not be "an island" isolated from the rest of neighbourhood, but one of the places that children have access to in the neighbourhood
The City as a Frame of Development for Children: The Herten Conference
No full textThe City as a Frame of Development for Children: The Herten Conferenc