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The Professional Preparation of Teachers and Early Childhood Educators: Changes in the Wind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Donald J. Stedman*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Extract

The recent advances in research in child development and early educational intervention programs signal a clear need for significant reform of the methods now used to prepare teachers of preschool age children with special needs. The changes need to vary in kind and amount. Reforms need to address both content and clinical skill development. And, competent personnel must be produced in greater numbers.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1990

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