Doris Fromberg, Ed.D.
Curriculum and Teaching
School of Education & Allied Human Services
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549

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DORIS PRONIN FROMBERG, Ed.D., is Professor of Education; Director, Early Childhood Teacher Education, and past-chairperson, Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University. She has served as a teacher and administrator in public and private schools, as well as director of Teacher Corps projects. She is past-president of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) Foundation, past-president of the NAECTE, and has chaired the Special Interest Group on Early Education and Child Development of the American Educational Research Association as well as the Special Study Group on Elementary Education of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. She has been a member of the Board of Examiners of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and serves as a PETE consultant to colleges seeking national accreditation. She was recipient of the 1996 Early Childhood Teacher Educator of the Year Award from NAECTE/Allyn & Bacon. Among her publications are Play from Birth to Twelve and Beyond (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, co-edited with D. Bergen, 2006); Play and Meaning in Early Childhood Education (Allyn & Bacon, 2002); The Full-Day Kindergarten 2nd Ed. (Teachers College Press, 1995; translated into Chinese and Korean, 1999); The Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education (Garland, co-edited with L.R. Williams, 1992); and Greenwood/Praeger Early Childhood Series co-editor with L.R. Williams. [Series books include Gordon, T. (2006) Teaching Young Children English as a Second Language; Mindes, G. (2006) Teaching Young Children Social Studies; and Schwartz, S. (2005). Teaching Young Children Mathematics. Forthcoming: Grennon Brooks, J. Teaching Young Children Science.]