1. Letter from the editors

   EditorialNotes Pages: iii - iv

2. Issue overview

   Announcement Pages: v - vi

3. An epistemological and ethical categorization of perspectives on early childhood curriculum

   • Ok Seung Yang

   Articles Pages: 1 - 8

4. La realidad de la adquisición del lenguaje oral y escrito en una muestra de escuelas del sector sur de Santiago

   • Carmen Díaz Oyarce
   • Elena Alvarez-Salamanca Mujica

   Articles Pages: 9 - 18

5. Poverty: Comparing perceptions and understandings among school and preschool aged children

   • Jadwiga Kopczyska-Sikorska
   • Marta Szyszko

   Articles Pages: 19 - 25

6. The needs of Non-English Speaking Background children with a disability

   • Vivi Germanos-Koutsounadis

   Articles Pages: 26 - 33

7. Implementing change at the pre-primary level in a school in India

   • Amita Gupta

   Articles Pages: 34 - 42

8. The relationship between playfulness and creativity of Japanese preschool children

   • Satomi Izumi Taylor
   • Cosby Steele Rogers

   Articles Pages: 43 - 49

9. Diminuer la peur d’apprendre: Le role de la mediation culturelle

   • Serge Boimare

   Articles Pages: 50 - 56

10. Children’s books for 1–6 year olds in Greece

    • Triantafillia Natsiopoulou

    Articles Pages: 57 - 62

11. OMEP news from the president april 2001

    • Audrey Curtis

    News & Announcements Pages: 63 - 64

12. OMEP announcements

    News & Announcements Pages: 64 - 65