Research Catalog

Title

Shaping the preschool agenda : early literacy, public policy, and professional beliefs / Anne McGill-Franzen.

Author

McGill-Franzen, Anne.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

vi, 227 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning

Uniform Title

SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning.

Subject

• Readiness for school
• Education, Preschool > Curricula > United States
• Children with social disabilities > Education > United States
• Reading > United States
• Educational equalization > United States
• Children with social disabilities > Education
• Education, Preschool > Curricula
• Educational equalization
• Readiness for school
• Reading
• Kleinkinderziehung
• Schulreife
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.

Contents

Making children ready for school: an issue for the 1990s -- Early schooling, literacy, and the law -- The early kindergarten, readiness, and reading -- Child care, social class, and the government -- Development: from mere description to a moral face -- School readiness defined: from Mama Robin to the SATs -- The authorities on developmentally appropriate practice: dispositions, language, and cognitively oriented active learning -- Readiness for school, but what counts as "school"? education, socialization, and habilitation -- Equal opportunity for the least of us and popular in the suburbs: public school for four-year-olds -- Making the agenda: conflicts, windows, and labels -- Beginning reading materials: are they getting harder? -- The shared history: literacy, young children, and early schooling.

ISBN

• 0791411958
• 9780791411957
• 0791411966
• 9780791411964

LCCN

91034722

OCLC

• ocm24541761
• 24541761
• SCSB-8901019

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library