Help! the toddlers are biting!

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Elsie Calitz Teachers can tell hair raising as well as extremely funny stories about biting. One teacher related how one little boy bit another one in a place where no little boy wants to be bitten. T...

The Contribution of Documentation to the Quality of Early Childhood Education

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Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard The municipal preprimary schools in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia have been attracting worldwide attention for more than a decade. The reasons are many ...

Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School

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New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik| Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger...

Children’s aesthetic awareness

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Learning is its own exceeding great reward. -William Hazlitt In her article in the March/April 2012 issue of Exchange, “The Intangibles in the Early Childhood Classroom,” Carol B. Hillman ...