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The Ethics of Preschool Intervention: Project Enrichment of Childhood, Bourke, N.S.W.
Author(s) -
Taylor L. J.,
Nurcombe B.,
Lacey P. R.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1974.tb00521.x
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , intervention (counseling) , project commissioning , publishing , process (computing) , early childhood intervention , psychology , early childhood , mathematics education , code (set theory) , pedagogy , computer science , medical education , sociology , developmental psychology , medicine , political science , programming language , psychiatry , law , set (abstract data type)
The present paper examines the question of intervention in the learning process of disadvantaged children by presenting a description of programmes and results from the experimental preschool at Bourke, N.S.W. The preschool attempts to provide the children with a choice of linguistic codes by teaching them the characteristics of elaborated formal English. The programme does not replace the restricted code but builds on it. Results are presented which indicate that a highly structured programme is most effective in accomplishing this goal. The problems associated with the research project and attempts to solve these difficulties are also discussed.