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- Accessing Curriculum Through Technology Tools (ACTTT): A Model Development ProjectKatrina M. Daytner, Joyce Johanson, Letha Clark, & Linda RobinsonVolume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Action Research to Address the Transition from Kindergarten to Primary School: Children's Authentic Learning, Construction Play, and Pretend PlayScott Lee & Garry GohVolume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Analyzing the Impact of Gender on Depictions of Touch in Early Childhood Textbooks
- “And Then a Huge, Huge Giant Grabbed Me!” Aggression in Children’s Stories
- The Apple Project
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- Applying an Analytic Writing Rubric to Children's Hypermedia "Narratives"
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- Appreciating Diversity through Children's Stories and Language Development
- Are Early Intervention Services Placing Home Languages and Cultures “At Risk”?
- Assessing the Quality of Early Years Learning Environments
- Assessment for Preschool Science Learning and Learning Environments
- At the Zoo: Kindergartners Reinvent a Dramatic Play Area
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- Babies on Campus: Service to Infants and Families among Competing Priorities in University Child Care Programs Mary Benson McMullen & Martha LashVolume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- “Babies Grow a Long Time:” A Preschool Project about BabiesAndromahi Harrison Volume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- The Baby Project
- Becoming Good Human Beings: Low-Income Mothers’ Dreams for Children and Their Insight into Children’s Needs Jennifer Mohr, Eva Zygmunt, & Patricia ClarkVolume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Beginning the Journey: The Project Approach with Toddlers
- The Birds and Their Nests Project
- Building “Bob”: A Project Exploring the Human Body at Western Illinois University Preschool Center
- Building Equitable Staff-Parent Communication in Early Childhood Settings: An Australian Case Study
- [English] Volume 3, Number 2: Fall 2001
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- The Canada Goose Project: A First Project with Children under 3
- Changing Classroom Practice to Include the Project Approach
- Changing Curriculum for Early Childhood Education in England
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- “Cheesy Pizza”: The Pizza Project
- The Chicken and Egg Project
- Child Care in the American South: Poverty, Costs, and Quality Vikki K. CollinsVolume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Children's Friendship Development: A Comparative Study
- Children's Social Behavior in Relation to Participation in Mixed-Age or Same-Age Classrooms
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- "Clouds Come from New Hampshire": Confronting the Challenge of Philosophical Change in Early Childhood Programs
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
- Coaching as Part of a Pilot Quality Rating Scale Initiative: Challenges to—and Supports for—the Change-Making Process
- Collaborative Course Development in Early Childhood Special Education through Distance Learning
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- College Students' Beliefs about Preschooler' s Literacy Development: Results from a National Study of Jumpstart
- Color as a Semiotic Resource in Early Sign-Making
- The Combine Project: An Experience in a Dual-Language Classroom
- Comment on Marcon "Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success"
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- A Comparison of the National Preschool Curricula in Norway and Sweden
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
- Comparisons in Early Years Education: History, Fact, and Fiction
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- Computer Use in Preschools: Directors' Reports of the State of the Practice
- Conceptualizing the Professional Role in Early Childhood Centers: Emerging Profiles in Four European Countries
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- Confronting the Baby Blues: A Social Constructivist Reflects on Time Spent in a Behaviorist Infant Classroom
- Constructing and Resisting the Development of a School Readiness Survey: The Power of Participatory Research
- Continuity and Purpose in the Design of Meaningful Project Work
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- The Continuity Framework: A Tool for Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- Correlates of Family Routines in Head Start Families
- Creating the Conditions for Success with Early Learning Standards: Results from a National Study of State-Level Standards for Children's Learning Prior to Kindergarten
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- Creatively Constructing a Community of Learners
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- Demographic Characteristics of Early Childhood Teachers and Structural Elements of Early Care and Education in the United States
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
- Dental Care Issues for African Immigrant Families of Preschoolers
- Determinants of Parental Involvement in Early Schooling: Evidence from Japan
- Development of a Comprehensive Community Assessment of School Readiness
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Pest Management Toolkit for Child Care Providers Abbey Alkon, Evie Kalmar, Victoria Leonard, Mary Louise Flint, Devina Kuo, Nita Davidson, & Asa BradmanVolume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Discriminant Validity of a Community-Level Measure of Children's Readiness for School
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- Does Early Childhood Intervention Affect the Social and Emotional Development of Participants?
- Dramatic Play as a Context for Children's Investigation of Size and Scale
- Dynamic Aims: The Use of Long-term Projects in Early Childhood Classrooms in Light of Dewey’s Educational Philosophy
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
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- Early Care and Education Leadership and Management Roles: Beyond Homes and CentersMarcy Whitebook, Fran Kipnis, Laura Sakai, & Lea J. E. AustinVolume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Early Childhood Education as Risky Business: Going Beyond What’s “Safe” to Discovering What’s Possible
- Early Childhood Educators and the FIS Grant Program: An Interview with Naomi Karp
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- Early Childhood Faculty and the Language of Research—Evidence for Improvement: A Response to Hyson et al.
- An Early Childhood Program Matrix: Pulling the Pieces Together for Illinois
- Early Learning Standards: Results from a National Survey to Document Trends in State-Level Policies and Practices
- Editing: Permission to Start Wrong
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- Education Matters in the Nurturing of the Beliefs of Preschool Caregivers and Teachers
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- Effects of a Full-Day Preschool Program on 4-Year-Old Children
- The Effects of Music Instruction on Emergent Literacy Capacities among Preschool Children: A Literature Review
- The Effects of Observation Coaching on Children’s Graphic Representations
- The Effects of Outcomes-Driven Authentic Assessment on Classroom Quality
- The Effects of Project Work in a First-Grade Classroom: A Little Goes a Long Way
- Engineering Curricula in Early Education: Describing the Landscape of Open Resources
- Evidence on Effective Early Childhood Interventions from the United Kingdom: An Evaluation of the Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP)
- Examining the Definition and Measurement of Quality in Early Childhood Education: A Review of Studies Using the ECERS-R from 2003 to 2010Karen M. La Paro, Amy C. Thomason, Joanna K. Lower, Victoria L. Kintner-Duffy, & Deborah J. CassidyVolume 14, Number 1: Spring 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Examining Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: Possibilities and Pitfalls
- Exposure to Media Violence and Other Correlates of Aggressive Behavior in Preschool Children
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- Faces to the Window: "The Construction Project"
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
- "Fixing Puppets So They Can Talk": Puppets and Puppet Making in a Classroom of Preschoolers with Special Needs
- The Food and Restaurant Project
- From Themes to Projects
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
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- Getting from Here to There: To an Ideal Early Preschool System— James J. Gallagher, Richard M. Clifford, & Kelly Maxwell
- Getting Teachers from Here to There: Examining Issues Related to an Early Care and Education Teacher Policy
- The Gift of Time: Enactments of Developmental Thought in Early Childhood Practice
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- Guest Editorial: Child Developmental Perspectives in Engineering Education
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- The Hairy Head Project
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- Head Start Families Sharing Literature
- Home-Community Visits during an Era of Reform (1870-1920)
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- The Hospital Project
- How Do Children Tell Us about Their Childhoods?
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- Identifying Key Early Literacy and School Readiness Issues: Exploring a Strategy for Assessing Community Needs
- Identifying Online Preferences and Needs of Early Childhood Professionals Daniel J. Weigel, Dana A. Weiser, Diane W. Bales, & Kendra J. MoysesVolume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Implementing a Musical Program to Promote Preschool Children's Vocabulary Development
- Implementing a New Social-Emotional Philosophy: The Struggle in One Head Start Classroom
- Implementing the Project Approach in Part-time Early Childhood Education Programs
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- “In Hispanic Culture, the Children are the Jewels of the Family”: An Investigation of Home and Community Culture in a Bilingual Early Care and Education Center Serving Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker Families
- In Memoriam: David P. Weikart: 1931-2003
- In Memoriam: Susan J. Kontos
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- Including Parents in Evaluation of a Child Development Program: Relevance of Parental Involvement
- Inquiry-Based Science in Seattle Preschools
- [English] Fall 2010
- Instant Video Revisiting: The Video Camera as a "Tool of the Mind" for Young Children
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
- Instant Video Revisiting for Reflection: Extending the Learning of Children and Teachers
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- Interlimb Coordination: An Important Facet of Gross-Motor Ability
- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Lessons from My Travels
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- Introducing the Project Approach and Use of Visual Representation to Early Childhood Education in Bhutan
- Introduction (in a Special Section on the Project Approach)
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- Introduction to Collected Papers from the SEED (STEM in Early Education and Development) Conference
- [English] Fall 2010
- Introduction to the Discussion (on "Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success")
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- Introduction to the Special Issue on STEM in the Lives of Young Children
- Introduction to the Special Section on Dramatic Play
- Introduction to the Special Section on Infants and Toddlers
- Introduction to the Special Section on Social-Emotional Issues in Early Childhood Settings
- Introductory Editorial (on the Inaugural Issue of ECRP)
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- Investigating the Tallgrass Prairie
- It’s More Than Content: Expanding the Conception of Early Learning Standards
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- Keeping Current in Child Care ResearchAnnotated Bibliography: An Update
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
- Kindergarten Readiness and Preschools: Teachers’ and Parents’ Beliefs Within and Across Programs Beth Hatcher, Joyce Nuner, & Jean Paulsel Volume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
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- Language and Literacy Promotion in Early Childhood Settings: A Survey of Center-Based Practices
- [English] Volume 8, Number 1: Spring 2006
- Language Development and Science Inquiry: The Head Start on Science and Communication Program
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- “The Learning Never Stops”: Lessons from Military Child Development Centers for Teacher Professional Development Policy
- Learning to Guide Preschool Children's Mathematical Understanding: A Teacher's Professional Growth
- Learning Stories and Children' s Powerful Mathematics
- Learning to Teach Science: Strategies that Support Teacher Practice
- [English] Fall 2010
- The Lights Pre-project: Implementation of the Project Approach with Children under 3 Years of Age
- Linking Standards and Engaged Learning in the Early Years
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring
- The Llama Project
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- Locatives and Visuomotor Skills in the Kindergarten Year
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
- A Look at Children’s Adjustment to Early Childhood Programs
- Looking at the Trees around Us
- The Lunch Project
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- Making the Match: Culturally Relevant Coaching and Training for Early Childhood Caregivers Tina P. Kruse Volume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Mapping Knowledge: Concept Maps in Early Childhood Education
- Measuring Teachers' Perceived Interactions with Children: A Tool for Assessing Beliefs and Intentions
- Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Poor and Vulnerable Children in Early Care and Education Programs
- Mental Health Screening in Child Care: Impact of a Statewide Training Session Mary Margaret Gleason, Sherryl Scott Heller, Geoffrey A. Nagle, Allison Boothe, Angela Keyes, & Janet Rice Volume 14, Number 2: Fall 2012. Also available in Spanish.
- Mentoring for Change: A Time Use Study of Teacher Consultants in Preschool Reform
- The Missing Support Infrastructure in Early Childhood
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- Modeling Collaboration, In-Depth Projects, and Cognitive Discourse: A Reggio Emilia and Project Approach Course
- [English] Volume 4, Number 2: Fall 2002
- Mothers’ Representations of the Role of Parents and Preschools in Promoting Children’s Development
- Moving toward a More Robust Research Agenda: A Response to Hyson et al.
- Moving toward Visual Literacy: Photography as a Language of Teacher Inquiry
- Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
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- Narrating and Reading Folktales and Picture Books: Storytelling Techniques and Approaches with Preschool Children
- A Neophyte Early Childhood Teacher's Developing Relationships with Parents: An Ecological Perspective
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- Nurturing Social Experience in Three Early Childhood Special Education Classrooms
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- Observing Children’s Stress Behaviors in a Kindergarten Classroom
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- Parent Expectations of Young Children in Taiwan
- Pathways to Bilingualism: Young Children's Home Experiences Learning English and Spanish
- Perspectives of Play in Three Nations: A Comparative Study in Japan, the United States, and Sweden
- Picture Book Reading Experience and Toddlers’ Behaviors with Photographs and Books
- Picturing What's Possible—Portraits of Science Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms
- [English] Fall 2010
- Preschool Teachers' Play Experiences Then and Now
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- Primary Literacy Achievement: A Collaborative Urban Partnership
- Professional Development Needs of Directors Leading in a Mixed Service Delivery Preschool System
- Professional Growth Reconceptualized: Early Childhood Staff Searching for Meaning
- [English] Volume 3, Number 2: Fall 2001
- The Project Approach: Meeting the State Standards
- [English] Volume 2, Number 1: Spring 2000
- Project Katrina
- Promoting Health and Preventing Injury in Preschool Children: The Role of Parenting Stress
- Public Factors That Contribute to School Readiness
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
- Purposeful Learning: A Study of Water
- [English] Volume 3, Number 2: Fall 2001
- Put “Academic Content” in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Teacher Education: A Response to Hyson et al.
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- A Qualitative Study of Early Childhood Educators’ Beliefs about Key Preschool Classroom Experiences
- Quality from a Toddler’s Perspective: A Bottom-Up Examination of Classroom Experiences
- Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Faculty Perspectives and Recommendations for the Future
- Quality Support Infrastructure in Early Childhood: Still (Mostly) Missing
- “Quarters Are What You Put into the Bubble Gum Machine”: Numeracy Interactions during Parent-Child Play
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- Reaching Out to Fathers: An Examination of Staff Efforts That Lead to Greater Father Involvement in Early Childhood Programs
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- Reactions to Visiting the Infant-Toddler and Preschool Centers in Reggio Emilia, Italy
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
- Readiness for School: A Survey of State Policies and Definitions
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- Reading the Intentionality of Young Children
- “Reading” Young Children’s Visual Texts
- Reconstructing Teacher Education to Prepare Qualified Preschool Teachers: Lessons from New Jersey
- Reflections and Impressions from Reggio: "It’s Not about Art!"
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
- Relationship Building: Infants, Toddlers, and 2-Year-Olds
- Reply to Lonigan Commentary (on "Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success,")
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- The Restructuring of an Urban Elementary School: Lessons Learned as a Professional Development School Liaison
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999
- Revealing the Work of Young Engineers in Early Childhood Education
- [English] Fall 2010
- The Role of Child Development and Social Interaction in the Selection of Children's Literature to Promote Literacy Acquisition
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- The Role of Pretend Play in Children's Cognitive Development
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
- The Role of Religious Beliefs in Early Childhood Education: Christian and Buddhist Preschools in Japan
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
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- Sailing through Stormy Seas: An Israeli Kindergarten Teacher Confronts Holocaust Remembrance Day
- The School Bus Project
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
- Science in Early Childhood Classrooms: Content and Process
- [English] Fall 2010
- Seymour Papert's Vision for Early Childhood Education? A Descriptive Study of Head Start and Kindergarten Students in Discovery-based, Logo-rich Classrooms
- Social-Emotional Environments: Teacher Practices in Two Toddler Classrooms
- The Source of Child Care Center Preschool Learning and Program Standards: Implications for Potential Early Learning Challenge Fund Grantees
- “Spend Your Whole Life Learning and Giving!” An interview with Alice Sterling Honig
- Starting Child Care: What Young Children Learn about Relating to Adults in the First Weeks of Starting Child Care
- [English] Volume 2, Number 2: Fall 2000
- Starting School: Effective Transitions
- [English] Volume 3, Number 2: Fall 2001
- STEM in the Early Years
- [English] Fall 2010
- Students Learn about Documentation throughout Their Teacher Education Program
- A Study of Bones
- Successful versus Unsuccessful Schools through the Eyes of Children: The Use of Interviews, Autophotography, and Picture Selection
- Supporting Vulnerable Learners in the Primary Grades: Strategies to Prevent Early School Failure
- [English] Volume 5, Number 2: Fall 2003
- The Synthesis of Writing Workshop and Hypermedia-Authoring: Grades 1-4
- [English] Volume 3, Number 2: Fall 2001
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- Talking about Artifacts: Preschool Children's Explorations with Sketches, Stories, and Tangible Objects
- TangibleK Robotics Program: Applied Computational Thinking for Young Children
- Tantrums and Anxiety in Early Childhood: A Pilot Study
- Teachers' Beliefs and Teaching Beliefs
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
- Teachers’ Views of the Efficacy of Incorporating the Project Approach into Classroom Practice with Diverse Learners
- Teaching and Learning When No One Is Expert: Children and Parents Explore Technology
- Telling Stories with Blocks: Encouraging Language in the Block Center
- A Test of a Measure for Assessing Teachers' Judgments about Social Interaction Practices in the Preschool Years
- Testing the Whole Teacher Approach to Professional Development: A Study of Enhancing Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology Proficiency
- Three Approaches from Europe: Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia
- [English] Volume 4, Number 1: Spring 2002
- Toward an Early Care and Education Agenda for Hispanic Children
- A Trip to the Zoo: Children's Words and Photographs
- [English] Volume 3, Number 1: Spring 2001
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- Understanding the Relationships among American Primary-Grade Teachers and Korean Mothers: The Role of Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in the Linguistically Diverse Classroom
- [English] Volume 5, Number 1: Spring 2003
- “Unintended Consequences”—A Life in Early Childhood Education
- Using the Project Approach in a Teacher Education Practicum
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- "You Be the Bad Guy": A New Role for Teachers in Supporting Children's Dramatic Play
- Young Children’s Cognitive Engagement during Classroom Book Reading: Differences According to Book, Text Genre, and Story Format
- Young Children’s Spontaneous Participation during Classroom Book Reading: Differences According to Various Types of Books
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- A Whale of an Interest in Sea Creatures: The Learning Potential of Excursions
- What Happens at a Car Wash?
- What Professional Development in Early Childhood Science Will Meet the Requirements of Practicing Teachers?
- [English] Fall 2010
- What Should Children Learn? Making Choices and Taking Chances
- [English] Volume 1, Number 2: Fall 1999
- When 2-Year-Olds and 3-Year-Olds Think Like Scientists
- Who Cares? How Teachers Can Scaffold Children’s Ability to Care: A Case for Picture Books
- “Who’s the Boss?” Young Children’s Power and Influence in an Early Childhood Classroom
- Wondering with Children: The Importance of Observation in Early Education
- Writing for Electronic Journals
- [English] Volume 1, Number 1: Spring 1999

