“ If you look around, about every single major American issue that needs to be addressed is around the way we treat our children… What are we going to leave our children? It’s a major issue. It is the great purpose that we need to revive. We don’t have lot of public purposes in America. We need this kind of movement around children’s issues to determine whether we can protect people who don’t have the power of the vote.”
Marian Wright Edelman President, Children’s Defense Fund
“Because all development occurs in and is influenced by social and cultural contexts, early childhood programs cannot be developmentally appropriate unless they are also culturally appropriate.
Susan Bredekam, director of Research, The council for Professional Recognition, Washington
Shelby,
ReplyDeleteIt is very important for us as professionals to establish a flexible curriculum that supports developmentally appropriate education in a diverse setting.
Great quote