This reader brings together over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of early childhood education and our contemporary understanding of it. Selections are organized topically around major areas of study such as teaching, development, exceptional and culturally diverse students, learning and instruction, motivation and classroom management, and assessment.
This is most useful if you are interested in the history of early childhood education. There are a few really good selections that are useful, but the rest are useful primarily to the historian only.