1 the analysis of the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline;  2 the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline;  the study or description of methods.
Play-Based Child Care Curriculum. The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care is a play-based curriculum that emphasizes a warm, responsive relationship between provider and child and a rich educational environment. The majority of children's learning and development occurs spontaneously during child-led free play.
Child care or childcare, child minding, daycare or preschool is the caring for and supervision of a child or children, usually from age six weeks to age thirteen. Child care is the action or skill of looking after children by a day-care center, babysitter, or other providers.re-school is often the term used to refer to child care centers that care primarily for 3 and 4-year old children. Preschool can be based in a center, family child care home or a public school. Head Start is a federally funded program for low income children ages 3 and 4 and their families.