Mobile crèches: A way of reaching children of poverty

Educational Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-242

  Isikoglu, Nesrin ^a   Ivrendi, Asiye ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Early childhood education; Early intervention programmes; Mobile crches in Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548234559     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880701550474     Document Type: Article

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