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Understanding research in early education : the relevance for the future of lessons from the past

Title
Understanding research in early education : the relevance for the future of lessons from the past / Margaret M. Clark.
Author
Clark, Margaret Macdonald.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description
x, 194 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Using clear and concise language, the author illustrates how to avoid common pitfalls in misrepresenting research findings and how to apply these findings in the classroom. Readers need no previous expertise in the field to benefit from this guide.
Subject
  • Early childhood education > Great Britain > Evaluation
  • Reading (Early childhood) > Great Britain > Evaluation
  • Children with disabilities > Education > Evaluation. > Great Britain
  • Preschool children > Great Britain > Language > Case studies
  • Preschool children > Language
  • Children with disabilities > Education > Evaluation
  • Early childhood education > Evaluation
  • Reading (Early childhood) > Evaluation
  • Sonderpädagogik
  • Vorschulerziehung
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The language of young children : perceptions in 1970s and their continuing relevance -- Research evidence on language and the homes of young children : looking back and looking forward -- Studies in preschool units : researches in 1970s and 1980s set in context -- Studies of preschool education in Scotland : lessons from the past -- Language and interaction in preschool units : looking back and looking forward -- Research studies on transition and continuity in early education : lessons from the past -- Communication in the early education of children from different ethnic backgrounds : part 1 of a DES-funded study -- Reception classrooms as contexts for learning : part 2 of a DES-funded study -- Reading and learning to read -- Young fluent readers and children with difficulties : two contrasting research approaches -- Better beginnings.
ISBN
  • 0415361125
  • 9780415361125
  • 0415361133
  • 9780415361132
LCCN
  • 2005001118
  • 9780415361132 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC
  • ocm57493883
  • 57493883
  • SCSB-8900795
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library