Culture and the early childhood curriculum

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-13

  Spodek, Bernard ^a   Saracho, Olivia N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Curriculum; Early childhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250159261     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300443961230101     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Biber, B. (1984). Early education and psychological development. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2. Bredekamp, S. (1987). Developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Washington, DC: NAEYC.
3. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). Theecology of human development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
4. Counts, G.S. (1932). Dare the schools build a new social order? New York: John Day.
5. Craig, W.C. (1980). Theories of development: Concepts and applications (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
6. Cuffaro, H. (1991). Toys as the texts of early childhood education. In B. Spodek & O.N. Saracho (Eds.), Issues in early childhood education: Yearbook on early childhood education. Vol.2. New York: Teachers College Press.
7. Erikson, E.H. (1950). Childhood and Society. New York: Norton.
8. Freud, S. (1905). The basic writings of Sigmund Freud (A.A. Brill, Trans.). New York: Modern Library.
9. Froebel, F. (1896). The education of man. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
10. Gesell, A. & Ilg, F.L. (1943). Infant and child in the culture of today. New York: Harper & Row.
11. Goodenough, W.H. (1981). Culture, language and society (2nd ed.). Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings.
12. Hirsch, E.D., Jr. (1987). Cultural Literacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
13. Kohlberg, L. & Mayer, R. (1972). Development as the aim of education. Harvard Education Review.
14. McMillan, M. (1919). The nursery school London: J.M. Dent and Sons.
15. Montessori, M. (1964). The Montessori method. New York: Schocken.
16. Owen, R. (1857). Essays on the formation of character. In The life of Robert Owen. Written by himself. (Vol. I) (pp. 287-307). London: Effingham Wilson.
17. Piaget, J. (1964). Development and learning in R. Ripple and V. Rockcastle (Eds.), Piaget rediscovered. Ithica, NY. Cornell University Press.
18. Saracho, O.N. & Hancock, F.M. (1983). The culture of the Mexican Americans. In O.N. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Understanding the multicultural experience in early childhood education. (pp. 3-15). Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
19. Shirakawa (in press). Culture and the Japanese kindergarten curriculum: A historical view. Early Child Development and Care.
20. Spodek, B. (1977). What constitutes worthwhile educational activities for young children. In B. Spodek (Ed.), Teaching practices: Reexamining assumptions. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
21. Spodek, B. (1986). Australian programs that prepare early childhood teachers. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 11, 3-9.
22. Spodek, B. (1989). Chinese kindergarten education and its reform. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 4, 31-50.
23. Spodek, B. (1991). Early childhood curriculum and cultural definitions of knowledge. In B. Spodek & O.N. Saracho (Eds.), Issues in early childhood curriculum: Yearbook in early childhood education. Vol. 1 (pp. 1-20). New York: Teachers College Press.
24. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
25. Weber, E. (1969). The kindergarten: Its encounter with educational thought in America. New York: Teachers College Press.
26. Woolens (1993). The black forest in a bamboo garden: Missionary kindergartens in Japan, 1868-1912. History of Education Quarterly, 33(1), 93.