EARLY YEARS LEARNING AND CURRICULUM Reconceptualising Reception: Continuity of learning
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Early Years Learning and Curriculum Continuity Project
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Authors: Professor Sue Dockett, Associate Professor Bob Perry, Heather Campbell, Louise Hard, Emma Kearney, Richard Taffe with the assistance of Jenny Greenhill Murray School of Education Charles Sturt University December, 2007
Reconceptualising Reception: Continuity of learning
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Executive summary................................................................................................................4 Introduction ............................................................................................................................5 Background...........................................................................................................................5 Definition of terms.................................................................................................................5 The literature review .............................................................................................................8 1 The changing face of early childhood education: expectations of preschool and the early years of school............................................................................................................10 Socio-political perspectives of early childhood education...................................................10 2 Views of children, childhood and children’s learning ...................................................14 3 Pedagogy and curriculum in early childhood education...