Tag: early childhood

Scholars in recent years have called for an emphasis on listening to children’s ideas and connecting with children through creative approaches to interviews (Clark 2017; Holmes 2019). To engage children in research, researchers have proposed effective, child-friendly interview methods, such as storytelling (Davis 2007; Eisner et al. 1990), art-based methods (Leavy 2020; Blaisdell et al.

Full-length article “The Worldwide Expansion of Early Childhood Care and Education, 1985–2010” by Wotipka, Rabling, Sugawara, and Tongliemnak published by the American Journal of Education available here. It is hard to imagine a time when the value of early childhood care and education would be questioned. But in 1979, a World Bank working paper argued that “preschool