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How Time Flies!

December 30, 2009

The year is almost over and what a year it has been. We have moved across the country, I have been published for the first (and second) time and Childhood 101 won an Asia-Pacific wide blog award. Here is a month by month overview of the most popular posts (yours or mine!) since Childhood 101 [...]

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Emergent Curriculum: How Does Following an Interest Differ From a Theme?

August 22, 2009

Following my posts, Following Children’s Interests and What Happens When You Follow a Child’s Interest?, I wanted to clarify the ways in which following a child’s (or group of children’s) interest differs from learning about a given ‘theme.’ I consider there are two major differences Who takes the lead, and How the content is formulated. [...]

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