Abstract
The recent publicity awarded the Head Start programme in the United States has done a great deal to shift public attention to preschool education and its problems. Ironically, the effect has been so strong that long established Canadian nursery school and public school programmes have been pushed into the background. This was no more clearly in evidence than at the conference on preschool education held in the fall of 1966 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The opening speaker's reference to Dr. W. E. Blatz was the only allusion to the Canadian scene. One of the reasons for this rather serious oversight was undoubtedly the fact that while preschool programmes in this country have been in operation for many years, research into the various aspects of the teaching and learning of very young children has been carried out in only a few institutions. The purpose of this article is to describe one such Canadian experiment, its results, and its implications.
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