• Psychology
• Published 1997
• DOI:10.1016/s0885-2006(97)90039-9

Between a Rock and a Hard Place in the Primary Grades: The Challenge of Providing Developmentally Appropriate Early Childhood Education in an Elementary School Setting.

@inproceedings{Goldstein1997BetweenAR,
  title={Between a Rock and a Hard Place in the Primary Grades: The Challenge of Providing Developmentally Appropriate Early Childhood Education in an Elementary School Setting.},
  author={Lisa S. Goldstein},
  year={1997}
}

• Lisa S. Goldstein

Abstract Primary grade teachers attempting to implement developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in their classrooms must contend with the competing professional paradigms of early childhood education and elementary schooling. In this article I describe the practices of one primary grade teacher to give a picture of how these tensions play out in one public elementary school setting. Though the practices of the teacher studied here embody some aspects of developmentally appropriate practice… CONTINUE READING

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