Developmental Education for Young Children in the Netherlands: Basic Development

This chapter describes Starting Blocks and Basic Development. This approach and curriculum provides possible answers for professionals working with young children. We focus on broad development of children by creating meaningful teaching opportunities in the context of play. We define play as a specific format of cultural activities that are characterised by rules that constitute the activity, high levels of involvement and the degrees of freedom that the cultural community allows to the player (B. van Oers, 2010). In Basic Development, we start from activities infused with sociocultural conte... Mehr ...