LILIAN G. KATZ is Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education. She is past President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and is Editor of the first on-line peer reviewed early childhood journal, Early Childhood Research & Practice. Her most recent book, Talks with Teachers of Young Children (Ablex,1995), is a collection of her best known early essays and several recent ones.
SYLVIA C. CHARD is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Alberta. She has conducted workshops and institutes on the Project Approach in North America and overseas and has written two Practical Guides for Teachers published by Scholastic.