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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Dr. Susan Bredekamp on Developmentally Appropriate Practice.

"Developmentally appropriate practices are ways of teaching that vary for or adapt to the age and experience of the individual learner. So fundamentally the definition has not changed. Instead, it has been expanded to include the fact that not only do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider children as members of groups with their own cultural identities."

Dr. Bredekamp has been very significant in defining DAP!  In this 2006 adaptation of the statement she includes all aspects of a child's environment; including micro and mesosystem's.  Read the full interview at:

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11922&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch.jsp%3Fquery%3Dneuman%26c1%3DCONTENT30%26c2%3Dfalse%22%3EAll+Results+%3C%2Fa%3E 
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  1. mwFebruary 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM

    Nice quote from Sue Bredekamp Ph.D. I agree that we must view children as indivuals with their own cultural identities.

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