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Selected Works of John Nimmo
Contribution to Book
The Child in Community: Constraints from the Early Childhood Lore
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach –Advanced Reflections (1998)
  • John Nimmo, Portland State University
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Abstract
In this chapter I show the limiting power of preconceptions about young children's potential for community participation, and examine some constraints that exist in my culturally based set of rules and expectations about what young children are able to do.
Keywords
  • Early childhood education -- United States -- Case studies
Disciplines
Publication Date
1998
Editor
C.P. Edwards, L. Gandini, & G.E. Forman
Publisher
Ablex Publishing Corporation
Citation Information
John Nimmo. "The Child in Community: Constraints from the Early Childhood Lore" The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach –Advanced Reflections (1998) p. 295 - 312
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john-nimmo/10/