Articles

NOTE:  Articles listed in Alphabetical order.  Articles residing on other websites will open in a new window

Art in the Classroom: A Special Part of Every Day

Babytalk: Toward stress-free conversations with children under four

Children of Incarcerated Parents

A Dialectic of Trust

Denying or Affirming Language: Reading, Writing, and Speaking in Standard English
This is a draft. 

Discussing the News with 3 to 7-year-olds [English]

Discussing the News with 3 to 7-year-olds [French]

A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Curriculum: Playing the Dream Reprinted from Young Children, January, 1988  (with audio of the famous 1963 speech)

Editing, Permission to Start Wrong Early Childhood Research & Practice, an electronic  journal of ERIC-ECE, Spring, 1999

Ivan the Terrible:  Sheltering the Out-of-Bounds Child
A chapter from The Sun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way:
On Child-Centered Teaching.

My Musings on Process vs. Product

Painting a Tragedy: Young Children Process the Events of September 11 (PDF)
by Toni Gross & Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Published in "Young Children" (May, 2002).

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1908-1984

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, a short entry in an early childhood encyclopedia

Sylvia Ashton-Warner Goes to Reggio Emilia (PDF)
Printed in Dimensions of Early Childhood, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2006
A publication of the Southern Early Childhood Association, Little Rock, Arkansas

Talking With Threes and Fours About the Hurricanes

Two-minute video on good art materials

Little Star Interview

Book Reviews: Circle of Love, by Amy C Baker & Lynn A Manfredi/Petitt and Teaching with Love by Lisa S Goldstein. 

In Childhood Education, Journal of the Association for Childhood International, Fall, 1998.

Free to be a Teacher in Focus, Bulletin of WVA. AEYC, February, 1987.

Naming the Pictures in our Hearts: Sylvia Ashton-Warner & the Key Vocabulary
Claremont Reading Conference Yearbook, 1990.

This article is available also from Pacific Oaks College (Pasadena, Calif.) Bookstore, as an Occasional Paper Column, "Ask Sydney" in San Francisco Head Start Newsletter, 1993-94 (4 issues)

E-mail:  sydney@eceteacher.org, www.eceteacher.org • (C) Copyright Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, 2009