childhood education
Young student instruction
Childhood education is the formal and informal teaching of children, typically from birth through elementary school.
The term encompasses preschool programs, kindergarten, and early primary grades, with emphasis on developmental learning through play, socialization, and foundational skills.
She devoted her career to childhood education.
Early childhood education specifically targets ages before formal schooling begins.
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- infancyEarliest period of life
- Montessori methodEducational philosophy emphasizing independence
- literacy programsInitiatives teaching reading skills
- developmental milestonesExpected stages of child progress
scaffolding · rote learning · daycare centers · finger painting · Jean Piaget · alphabet book · preschools · parental involvement · toddlerhood · cognitive development · ABCs · circle time · show and tell · recess bell · teacher training programs · sandbox · daycare · counting
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
childhood educationadult education
Learning for mature students
higher education · graduate education · continuing education · postgraduate studies · university education
childhood educationunschooling
Self-directed home education
street smarts · self-directed learning · autodidacticism · life experience · school of hard knocks