A Place Called Kindergarten.

Autor/inn/en	Katz, Lilian G.; und weitere
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Urbana, IL.
Titel	A Place Called Kindergarten.
Quelle	(1987), (157 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bibliografie; Administrator Attitudes; Annotated Bibliographies; Articulation (Education); Cooperation; Educational Objectives; Educational Policy; Grade 1; Kindergarten; Kindergarten Children; Learning Readiness; Parent Attitudes; Primary Education; Program Improvement; Reading Instruction; School Entrance Age; School Readiness; Screening Tests; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bibliography; Bibliographies; Bibliografie; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Co-operation; Kooperation; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Lernbereitschaft; Elternverhalten; Primarbereich; Leseunterricht; Einschulungsalter; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Screening-Verfahren; Lehrerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Written by members of a consulting team engaged to evaluate a school district's kindergarten program and make recommendations for the future, this report chronicles the district's progress in coming to more fully understand goals and problems related to kindergarten education. Specifically, the report presents the evaluation team's examination of conflicting claims, views, and assertions concerning the kindergarten program. Section I provides a brief description of the team's visit to the community, as well as summaries of information obtained from parents, school board members, central district staff, teachers, and principals. Section II addresses questions put to the team to guide the evaluation--questions that concerned developmental readiness, optional and regular kindergarten programs, and needed changes. Section III discusses particular issues the team wished to highlight: (1) the practice of "red-shirting," or parental withholding of 6-year-old children from first grade; (2) community competitiveness and parents' concern with their children "making it"; (3) curriculum issues, particularly the importance of appropriate methods of instruction; and (4) the cycle of blame allocation among the interested groups, which was considered irrelevant, potentially harmful, and capable of undermining efforts to solve the district's problems. Appended are a nearly verbatim record of participants' comments and an extensive ERIC Ready Search of 1985 and 1986 journal articles and documents about kindergarten and kindergarten children. (RH)
Anmerkungen	ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, University of Illinois, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 (Catalog No. 201, $6.95).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC