Overview
The pedagogical approaches adopted by teachers within early childhood settings are informed by a range of sources including understandings about how young children learn, emerging research on the importance of the first one thousand days in the life of a child and guidance from research and curriculum frameworks. Play is recognised as a context for learning with the child’s right to play and the benefits of play enshrined in national and international policy. In this unit, you will research early childhood pedagogies and theories of play that support the holistic development of young children. Understandings derived by researching pedagogical approaches and learning theory will inform the selection of strategies that are responsive to children’s development. The centrality of relationships and responsive language-rich adult-child interactions as pedagogy will be examined also. You will apply practices for gathering, organising, interpreting and sharing data about what children know, can do and understand. Through the analysis of curriculum documents, you will identify opportunities for children’s acquisition of literacy and numeracy knowledge in meaningful and developmentally appropriate ways.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Completion of 72 credit points in CA10 or CG72 OR Admission to CM43.
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Unit content
Continue to embed contemporary research pertaining to early childhood pedagogies