Applying new knowledge to critical issues
Fortunately, a continually expanding early childhood knowledge base enables the field to refine, redirect, or confirm understandings of best prac tice. The whole of the present position statement reflects fresh evidence of recent years and thd the perspectives and priorities emerging from these findings. This section looks within that mass of new knowledge to a few lines of research specifi cally helpful in addressing the three critical issues for the field identified in this position statement.