The High / Scope Approach : Evidence that Participatory Learning in Early Childhood Contributes to Human Development
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As special education director of the Ypsilanti public school district in the 1960s, David Weikart encountered daily the school failure of children born in poverty. In this time of the civil rights movement and the man-on-the-moon initiative, this was not a fact of life to be endured but a problem to solve. So, with the High/Scope Perry Preschool program that operated from 1962 to 1967, he began the sequence of work that led to his establishment of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation in 1970. He established the High/Scope Foundation to pursue the vision of a world in which all educational settings use participatory learning so everyone has a chance to succeed in life and contribute to society. He and his colleagues wanted to assist children with the odds against them to use education to rise above the poverty they were born in, to lift their lives through education. Their methods were curriculum development, research, training, publishing, and communication, primarily applied to early childhood programs. This chapter describes five studies that affirm the importance of participatory learning in early childhood. The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study compares the life outcomes of study participants who did and did not participate in such a preschool program. The High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study compares the life outcomes of study participants who
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تاریخ انتشار 2009