Creative curriculum and highscope curriculum: Constructing possibilities in early education

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Rediscovered, Renewed

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 120-132

  Michael Luna, Sara ^a   Heimer, Lucinda G ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WHEELOCK COLLEGE   (United States)

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