child education

Teaching young people

Child education is the teaching and intellectual development of children, typically from early childhood through adolescence.

The phrase encompasses formal schooling, home instruction, and broader developmental learning: She devoted her career to child education reform.

Often interchangeable with children's education, though child education appears more frequently in policy contexts and academic discourse.

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classroom · reading circle · learning to read · times tables · Montessori method · numeracy · preschool · school readiness · language acquisition · field trip · life skills training · social studies · kindergarten · show and tell · scaffolding · madrasah · sensory development · cooperative learning

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formality/structure

child educationunschooling

Self-directed home education

child neglect · free-range parenting

neglect/deprivation

child educationchild labor

Minors performing paid work

truancy · dropping out

Family

child, education, children, childish, childlike, childhood, childless, childlessness, educate

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