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early childhood curriculum  

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  • Embedded within Enlightenment and modernist discourses of progress, linearity, dualism, and science, Western Euro-American constructions of childhood have dominated curriculum both as defined and practiced. These constructions have focused on human beings from birth to 7 or 8 years of age. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Early Childhood Curriculum]

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