The last two decades have witnessed a transformation in thinking about the way in which children develop during their pre-school early years. Beginning in the late 1970s and continuing through the early 1980s researchers began to investigate the influence of the early years on a child's overall development of learning skills. These studies challenged the belief held at that time that academic learning capabilities developed only at school age. Indeed, it was demonstrated that children who went through pre-school learning programmes consistently demonstrated improvements in academic achievement in their later formal education.


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