Ballet Class 101

Ballet Class ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Klapper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Children ◽  
The United States ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Very Young Children

Ballet class is the foundation of ballet. For centuries ballet class has focused on an ordered progression of positions, movements, and exercises that would be familiar to students in all times and places, regardless of minor differences in technique or the wide array of motivations for taking ballet class. Ballet class in the United States could function as both a status symbol and a gender signifier. It has also expanded its reach to include very young children and adults of all ages who seek artistic expression and fitness. Leotards, tights, tutus, and pointe shoes have their own histories. There is both tradition and innovation within ballet class.

Neo-Oralism and the Education of the Deaf in the Soviet Union

1972 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Moores
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Young Children ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Oral Method

An overview of education of the deaf in the Soviet Union is presented with emphasis on the system known as neo-oralism. Educational services available to children at the preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels are described. Changes from the traditional pure oral method to neo-oralism are outlined. Components include active participation of the child, use of fingerspelling with very young children, and the concentric speech method. Implications for education of the deaf in the United States are discussed.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 950-950
Author(s):  
C. Everett Koop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Year 2000

As the Surgeon General of the United States in 1989, I challenged parents, physicians, state agency staff, and researchers to work together to find better ways to identify very young children with hearing impairments. With that challenge, I set a goal that by the year 2000, all children with significant hearing impairment would be identified before 12 months of age. Although it was an ambitious goal, I was optimistic that it could be accomplished. The last 5 years have demonstrated the feasibility of that goal, and it has, in fact, been accomplished by people who were ready and eager to do something toward its achievement.

scholarly journals Reconceptualizing civic education for young children: Recognizing embodied civic action

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Katherina A. Payne ◽  
Jennifer Keys Adair ◽  
Kiyomi Sanchez Suzuki Colegrove ◽  
Sunmin Lee ◽  
Anna Falkner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Early Childhood Settings

Traditional conceptions of civic education for young children in the United States tend to focus on student acquisition of patriotic knowledge, that is, identifying flags and leaders, and practicing basic civic skills like voting as decision-making. The Civic Action and Young Children study sought to look beyond this narrow vision of civic education by observing, documenting, and contextualizing how young children acted on behalf of and with other people in their everyday early childhood settings. In the following paper, we offer examples from three Head Start classrooms to demonstrate multiple ways that young children act civically in everyday ways. When classrooms and teachers afford young children more agency, children’s civic capabilities expand, and they are able to act on behalf of and with their community. Rather than teaching children about democracy and citizenship, we argue for an embodied, lived experience for young children.

Justifying “Wholesale Slaughter”

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Donald VanDeVeer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Recent Trial ◽  
The Law

In a recent trial in the United States a physician was convicted of manslaughter during the performance of a hysterotomy on a woman pregnant from twenty to twenty eight weeks. Some members of the jury, in their deliberations, were much impressed by seeing a photograph of a fetus of about the same age. The experience apparently provided some jurors with reason to conclude that the fetus which did die during or immediately after the hysterotomy was a human being or a person or, at least, was so like a child that the killing of it was prohibited by the law of homicide. If being a human being is not the same as being a pre-natal progeny of homo sapiens, it is difficult to understand how one could “tell by looking” whether the fetus is a human being. But the sight of a fetus of twenty weeks or longer does, I think, tempt us to think that from a moral standpoint we ought to extend the same treatment to such fetuses, or virtually the same, as we extend to newborn babies and young children. The visual similarities between middle or late stage fetuses and newborn babies is striking.

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