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C

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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

M

  • 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

O
  • Observing Children’s Stress Behaviors in a Kindergarten Classroom

P

  • 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
  • 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

R

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

U

  • 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

Y

  • "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

W

  • 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?
  • 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

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