Annotated Bibliography of APA Style

Annotated Bibliography of APA Style:

International Play School India, Best Preschool Education India, School Franchise | MapleBear (International Play School India, Best Preschool Education India, School Franchise | MapleBear)

The purpose of this article was to show their program was both play-oriented and yielding the highest marks all over the world. The audience for this article was probably to the teachers and parents and the curriculum board in Canada and around the world. This company wants to make play-oriented education available and viable all over the world. They have found their company to be highly successful throughout the world through engaged play-founded learning. This can later be used to help solidify that education-focused programs can be play-oriented as well. 

Membership (Educational Leadership:Faces of Poverty:How Preschool Fights Poverty)

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may13/vol70/num08/How-Preschool-Fights-Poverty.aspx

The purpose of this article was to show that preschool is highly important because it builds the child up so those who are from lower poverty lines still have the same level of social and educational skills as those who are from privileged homes. The audience is probably directed towards teachers and parents to help further promote enrolling children of all backgrounds in preschool classes. If this information were to spread nationwide there would be a lot of newly enrolled lower-income family children. This will help back up how preschool is important in my essay; the reason to write the essay in the first place.

Weisberg, D. S., Kittredge, A. K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Klahr, D. (2015). Making play work for education. Phi Delta Kappan, 96(8), 8-13.

The purpose of the article was to show how play-oriented education works to enforce real educational science and mathematical questions in the preschool setting. The primary audience is for teachers and parents to show that there is a way of making learning fun without detriment to the program or information. This will be helpful when I need examples of play-oriented learning that have been proven effective.  

The National Preschool Debate Intensifies (Edutopia)

http://www.edutopia.org/preschool

The purpose of this article was to tie together the two sides of preschool education through politics. The audience was designed for those interested in the political side to this argument, including government officials, companies responsible for curriculum guidelines, and teachers who are directly involved with the education of these young minds. This article will be great to use with my essay because I can use direct quotes from politicians to show both sides of this argument. 

Academic vs. play-based preschool debate fading in favor of intellectual discovery (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/04/01/Academic-vs-play-based-preschool-debate-fading-in-favor-of-intellectual-discovery/stories/201503310025

The purpose of this article was to show how play-oriented education is more engaging and how more people are seeing it that way in today's education system. The audience is directed at teachers and parents responsible for these young minds. This article shows that the growing support for play-oriented preschool curriculum may be coming out the stronger foot. This article uses a wide variety of effective examples which will help in my essay. 

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High-Quality Preschool: Why We Need It and What It Looks Like. (n.d.). Retrieved July 20, 2015, from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/high-quality-preschool-why-we-need-it-and-what-it-looks via Tumblr

The purpose of this article to share with parents how a greater level of education-based curriculum within a preschool can greatly increase the chances of a successful child in later education. The audience is for parents. This article will be great for supporting education-based preschools. 

Why Preschool Learning is Extremely Important for Your Child? (Education Blog)

https://educationxpozz.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/why-preschool-learning-is-extremely-important-for-your-child/

This purpose of this article is to education parents on the positive aspects of a preschool environment all together. Though this article doesn't delve into which is better, play or education based learning, this article is important to back up the reason to discuss this controversy. I will be using this article to help support my claims that preschool controversy is worth discussing. 

40 Preschools Will TRIAL TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE THROUGH PLAY-BASED LEARNING. (2014, November 7). Retrieved July 21, 2015, from https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/2lmy9j/40_preschools_will_trial_teaching_a_second/

The purpose of this article is to spread the news that play-based play could be shown to help children in preschool learn a second language. This is more for the public media side of things and doesn't have any strong background information or facts behind it, making this simply a supplementary article to my discussion. The targeted audience is simply for those interested. 

Getting Preschool Right (The Huffington Post)

By: Bongiorno, Laurel.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurel-bongiorno/getting-preschool-right_b_2782871.html

The purpose of this article is to showcase to teachers, parents, and politicians, the benefit of play-oriented preschool, and childhood. This is focused for audiences involved with these children or with politics around the funding of such programs. This article will help solidify my claims towards the political aspect of this debate as well as the help prove the point that play-oriented education is better for the children.