Talk:Preschool education

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This article is oddly isolated from the Early Childhood Education, Day Care, and Nursery School articles. I got to it by starting at Nursery School (from the body of the Sesame Street article when it was the featured article), to Reggio Emilia (which my daughter's preschool is part of), to Preschool Education.

Seems that maybe rather than merging Nursery School and Day Care articles (currently under vote), it makes more sense to merge Nursery School with Preschool Education. At least have them both linked in to the Early Childhood Education article.

71.111.151.138 07:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I think some of this information may be useful on Child development, can someone who knows this area better look at both pages and align them a little. Thanks --Evolve2k 13:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 hahaha 2 age 3 development areas 4 rude, confrontational comment 5 Merge with nursery school 6 Request a link 7 Aspects of preschoolers abilities 8 Inappropriate tone

[edit] hahaha

• Preschool is of, relating to, or for a child past infancy but younger than school age, usually between the ages of two and five (or six).

This is the single worst opening line I have ever read. it's hysterical. --Brideshead 21:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] age

preschool is education for children aged between approx 2 and 6 depending on area. It is not child care it is structured education which preceded formal schooling i.e. primary 1, grade 1, preparatory, reception whatever you call it. Nursery or nursery school is encompased within the banner of pre-school education thus does not succeed it. --Brideshead 18:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Preschool clearly means before school. A preschool is like a day care center or day nursery. (69.117.20.128 - Talk)

I agree, that is what my comment states I don't see your point, are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? Pre-school means before compulsary schooling and includes, nursery. --Brideshead 12:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] development areas

Where have these 3 areas come from? What about aesthetic development, what about Knowledge and understanding of the world? If these are some kind of overiding influential areas accepted by the wider academic community then they will have to be sourced. As it stands they are worthless. --Brideshead 16:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Lacking the sources, I have reworded the section reflecting more the main areas accepted by the systems of England and of Scotland. they are also roughly analogous to the 8 areas of the Victorian (Aus) CSFII. --Brideshead 17:12, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rude, confrontational comment

Your rude acerbic comment notwithstanding, American English (sic) is appropriate to the article in general as that was the original format in which the article was written. In Australia, the term is Child Care Centres, Australian English. We know how to spell perfectly well you... --Brideshead 09:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with nursery school

Please discuss at Talk:Nursery school#Merge with preschool education. BigNate37_(T) 19:51, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request a link

The Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide is a good preschool education resource. http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/topic/2/147.htm

The WebGuide is a directory that evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice. The WebGuide, a not-for-profit resource, was based on parent and professional feedback, as well as support from such noted child development experts as David Elkind, Edward Zigler, and the late Fred Rogers. Topics cover all ages, from early child development through adolescence. The WebGuide selects sites that have the highest quality child development research and that are parent friendly.

The preschool education / child care page of the site offers a wealth of early childhood education and preschool resource such as articles, research and practical advice for parents and professionals. These websites provide cost/benefit analyses and information on evaluating early childhood programs, information about child care, the transition to kindergarten and much more. Teamme 15:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aspects of preschoolers abilities

I think this section could use some citations from the works of Piaget, Vygotsky, or Erikson (among others) to make it sound more scholarly. Thoughts? Beatles970 (talk) 08:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate tone

I removed this piece of widely held and valid opinion that was added today, as in the current form it is not (in my opinion) in an encyclopedic tone, not verifiable.

Preschool education importance is unrated.I think the most importantly preschool help young learners develop a sense of themselves. It must help the young learner develop asense of worth and knowing that they and their ideas, thoughts and questions are of value and important to others. If the young learners has a good sense of themselves than they will be open to explore math, science and social studies. The young learner who knows that they and their ideas are important will gain knowledge and contribute to ideas and learning concepts.

I hope the new user who wrote it is persistent, and discovers the type of article we are aiming for at Wikipedia. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)