Caring for and nurturing children's de velopment are traditional activities of women; such activities also serve pro gressive educational goals. Using field studies methodology, a study of one woman's preservice experiences reveals the ways she cares for and nurtures chil dren through curriculum modification and teaching and indicates how her practices could, if taken to a larger scale, disrupt the prevailing social order of classrooms.
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