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Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage

English, E.

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This paper briefly considers what research has told us about the development of young children's understanding. It goes on to look at the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (QCA, 2000) in terms of that research. The paper suggests that the guidance has addressed concerns that early years practitioners might be delivering an inappropriate curriculum in their attempts to reach targets. The published guidance is giving a clear message that an early years curriculum is quite different from that provided for older children and that our knowledge of child development should be the driving force in delivering that curriculum.

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English, E. (2001). Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 197-204

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2001
Deposit Date Jun 30, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Evaluation and Research in Education
Print ISSN 0950-0790
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 15
Issue 3
Pages 197-204
Keywords Child development.
Publisher URL http://www.multilingual-matters.net/erie/015/erie0150197.htm

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