1. Editorial

   • Tricia David

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. Education de la petite enfance: La position de L’UNESCO early childhood education: UNESCO’s position

   • Mme Aïcha Bah Diallo

   Section 1 Pages: 1 - 7

3. Compartiendo la alegria de crecer juntos. Niños y adultos

   • Martha Llanos

   Section 1 Pages: 8 - 18

4. Reconceptualizing ECCD in the majority world: One minority world perspective

   • Alan R. Pence

   Section 1 Pages: 19 - 30

5. Providers and families: do they have the same views of early childhood programmes? some questions raised by working on early childhood education in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

   • Valerie Emblen

   Section 1 Pages: 31 - 37

6. Sunao (cooperative) children: The development of autonomy in Japanese preschoolers

   • Satomi Izumi Taylor
   • Marilyn Lichtman
   • Tetsuya Ogawa

   Section 1 Pages: 38 - 46

7. The Pacific world of early childhood education

   • Jean Crane

   Section-2 Pages: 47 - 50

8. La préscolarisation en zone rurale en France

   • Claudette Hélias

   Section 2 Pages: 51 - 55

9. Creating tolerant communities

   • Catharine Hydon
   • Anne Kennedy
   • Margaret Walpole

   Section 2 Pages: 56 - 60

10. News, reports, conferences OMEP 22nd World Congress and 50th Anniversary Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1998

    Section 3 Pages: 61 - 66

11. Call for papers

    Section 3 Pages: 67 - 67

12. Books: Reviews and publicity

    BookReview Pages: 68 - 69