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2018
Volume 95, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

This article reviews recent research on young children’s literacy learning, with a focus on innovative ideas that reclaim a long-standing ethos in early childhood education: child over curriculum.

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2018-01-01
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