Theories of Early Childhood Education

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Theories of Early Childhood Education
Introduction
Developing instructive tools for early childhood education can be challenging: because young children are pre-disposed to learning quickly at this age (cf. Fischer and Hencke, 1996), it is critically imperative that educators determine the best ways of disseminating information to their students. Developing early childhood education is about connecting children with the world, with people, and with diverse understandings of what we experience. One can directly increase students’ knowledge through instruction, but everything we know is in turn interpreted through our own experience base and underlying theory. Turning a critical lens to teaching experiences, we can therefore understand and...

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