Reflecting on where you are now: approaches to curriculum planning The tradition of apprenticeship characteri the curriculum in Pistoria's municipal preschools, with an emphasis, for example on needlework and s in one preschool and carpentry in another. These diverse emphases were not elected because of children's initiatives, rather, they represent areas of expertise and passionate pursuit among some of the adults in the school and neighbour- hood settings. The explicit goal, in this case, is to create opportunities for children to work with and learn from the adults as a means of connecting them to each other and to the larger community. (New 1999: 4)