Early Childhood Research and Practice

Greetings, ECRP Followers! You may have noticed a few recent updates to this page, including a new journal logo and banner. As you may know, submissions to ECRP were suspended late in 2014; since then we have been immersed in the process of transferring the journal to its new base of operations at Loyola University Chicago. Exciting news is headed your way over the next several months, including a new online home for ECRP (this will include the entire back catalog in the form of downloadable pdfs), a streamlined online submission system, and most importantly: a renewed and expanded mission. We expect submissions to reopen in early 2016 but will have a great deal of news to share throughout fall and winter. Stay tuned!

See the latest issue of Early Childhood Research & Practice -- 8 articles on topics ranging from the Project Approach to professional development -- and some important news.
http://ecrp.illinois.edu/

ECRP: Early Childhood Research & Practice We wish to share some good news. As of 2016, Early Childhood Research & Practice will move to the early childhood special education program at Loyola University Chicago after 17 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are delighted by the opportunity to “pass the torch” to our Lo…

Order copies of Projects to Go at the drastically reduced price of $10 (from $30)! This rich resource includes the DVD “Rearview Mirror: Reflections on a Preschool Car Project,” and a CD-ROM featuring practitioner reports in English and Spanish on projects that worked in real classrooms in the United States and elsewhere. More info here http://ecap.crc.illinois.edu/pubs/ptg/toc.pdf. Order here. https://www.ipay.uillinois.edu/pc/public/actstartdynamicform.cfm?siteid=497

Please help us keep ECRP available free to users around the world, with a contribution before Dec. 31. http://ecrp.illinois.edu/donation.html.

Financial Contributions If you have benefited from free access to ECRP, please consider making a financial contribution so that the journal can continue to be available free to everyone. Contributions to ECRP are managed by the University of Illinois Foundation.

Web statistics help ECRP staff know where our readers are in the world. We now have the capacity to share that information with the public by means of interactive maps. The United States map breaks user visits down by state. The world map and accompanying table show statistics for countries and cities. http://ecrp.illinois.edu/visitors/index.html

Visitors to ECRP Our interactive map lets users hover their cursor over individual countries or states to get the specific number of visitor sessions for that country or state.

The most recent issue (v16n1) of Early Childhood Research & Practice is now available at http://ecrp.illinois.edu/. We are pleased to have two papers in a special section on the landscape of early care and education in Illinois, our home state, a continuation of our special issue (v15n2) on that topic. Also featured are a paper on how programs can support bachelor degree attainment for non-traditional students and another on a study in which coaches used the CLASS and assessment of participants' use of the Project Approach to promote teachers' professional development.

ECRP has changed its publication schedule. We expect the next issue to be available in mid to late September 2014.

The Project Group meeting has been rescheduled and will now take place Saturday, April 12 in Davenport, IA. For details, seehttp://illinoispip.org/documents/2014pgm.pdf -- but note that the correct date should be April 12.

http://illinoispip.org/documents/2014pgm.pdf

Educators who are veteran Project Approach users can attend Advanced Training on the Project Approach June 18-20, 2014, led by Dr. Judy Harris Helm and Pam Scranton. Training will be in Peoria, Illinois. For details, seehttp://illinoispip.org/documents/2014AdvTraining.pdf

If you are a teacher in the Midwestern US who uses the Project Approach, or if you would like to find out more about Project work, consider attending the March 1, 2014 Project Group meeting in Davenport, IA. For details, seehttp://illinoispip.org/documents/2014pgm.pdf

A summer institute is being offered on the Project Approach, July 28-Aug.1, 2014 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, USA. Led by Dr. Lilian Katz, Dr. Sallee Beneke, and Ms. Deb Brownson, the Institute will introduce participants to using Project work in early childhood settings. For information or to register, see
https://epay.sau.edu/C21430_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=10&CATID=101

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Young children use a wide range of strategies and approaches to investigate interesting phenomena around them. Take a look at “When 2-Year-Olds and 3-Year-Olds Think Like Scientists” (http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n2/forman.html) and “What Happens at a Car Wash?” (http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v12n2/gallick.html), both from the Fall 2010 issue.

ECRP. Vol 12 No 2. When 2-Year-Olds and 3-Year-Olds Think Like Scientists In this article, which includes three video clips, the author argues that the small experiments, inventions, strategies, and pauses in young children’s play seen in the clips reveal a legitimate form of scientific thinking. He notes that science and play both represent a frame of mind, an attitude t...