Conceptualizing Today's Kindergarten Curriculum
1988; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 89; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/461573
ISSN1554-8279
Autores Tópico(s)Early Childhood Education and Development
ResumoAs kindergartens have become an almost universal experience for American children, there is a need to rethink the concepts underlying kindergarten education. Child development research and theory can help educators understand what young children can know. What children need to know is determined by what society thinks is important. Kindergartens have taught children various things at different times. Kindergarten programs that have developed from diverse traditions also teach young children different things. Educators today need to make explicit what they believe children should learn in kindergarten. Kindergarten programs can be responsive to children's developmental levels while emphasizing cultural knowledge and the foundations of academic scholarship. Such programs should be evaluated both in terms of their developmental appropriateness and in relation to their educational worth to the children taught and the communities served.
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