When we look beyond lesson planning and curricula – those explicit facets that comprise so much of our discussion about education – we remember that teaching is an inherently social activity, shaped by a rich array of implicit habits, comportments, a...

Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...

Published twenty years ago, the original "Preschool in Three Cultures" was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead au...