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Young Children is an award-winning, peer-reviewed professional journal published bimonthly by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Young Children issues are organized around topical clusters that devote special attention to issues in the field of early childhood education. View the entire issue online or read selected articles.
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Announcing—Young Children article wins Gold Excel Award from Association Media and Publishing for feature article in a journal. Read the article today!
Assessing and Scaffolding: Make-Believe Play/Deborah J. Leong and Elena Bodrova
The Patterns of Music: Young Children Learning Mathematics through Beat, Rhythm, and Melody/Kamile Geist, Eugene A. Geist, and Kathleen Kuznik
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Vol.67, No.1 (January 2012)
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