Wháriki Steiner
Te Whàriki
Early childhood is “…a period of momentous significance for all people growing up in [our] culture… By the time this period is over, children will have formed conceptions of themselves as social beings, as thinkers, and as language users, and they will have reached certain important decisions about their own abilities and their own worth.”
Donaldson, M., Grieve, R., and Pratt, C. Early Childhood Development and Education: Readings
in Psychology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983, p. 1.
