Intellectual development and early childhood education in the Republic of Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorHorgan, Mary
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Francis G.
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-30T15:19:22Z
dc.date.available2009-03-30T15:19:22Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how the Education Department at University College Cork investigated early years provision in Cork city and county; Junior Infant Classes; Montessori Schools; Playgroups over the past ten years. The study employed an ethnographic research strategy encompassing the Target Child Observation Schedule (a means of evaluating child development through play and activity-based learning), interviews, a study of classrooms, a questionnaire and an interaction analysis system. 367 children were observed during 120 hours of continuous observation. It compares the findings against other similar studies on early years provision carried out in Oxford and Miami and identify ‘good practice’ in Cork. The most striking conclusion of this paper is that the Montessori method of teaching young children surpasses all others with respect to high cognitive challenge. The structure of the curriculum would therefore seem to correlate highly with the enhancement of a child's intellectual development and the teacher's attitude and training would seem to be of vital importance.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationHorgan, M., Douglas, F., 1995. Intellectual development and early childhood education in the Republic of Ireland. Curriculum, 17(2), 102-116en
dc.identifier.endpage116en
dc.identifier.issn0143-8689
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCurriculumen
dc.identifier.startpage102en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherNafferton Books/ Association for the Study of the Curriculumen
dc.subjectCurriculumen
dc.subjectCognitive developmenten
dc.subjectEarly childhood educationen
dc.subjectPreschoolen
dc.subjectMontessorien
dc.subject.lcshEducationen
dc.subject.lcshEarly childhood education -- Irelanden
dc.titleIntellectual development and early childhood education in the Republic of Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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