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This course has a focus on the 0-3 age group. Students will reflect upon the importance of the early years and their understandings about the characteristics and capabilities of very young children (birth to three years). They will consider the nature of a 0-3 curriculum which focuses on responsive care-giving, attachment relationships and playful everyday interactions. Through ongoing observation and engagement with young children, their families, and early childhood professionals, students will examine the significance and characteristics of responsive relationships, rich interactions and aesthetic environments for healthy development and learning in the early years. Students will learn about early childhood documentation as a cycle of inquiry, a process, and a way of listening to children. They will practice using documentation to make visible young children's ways of knowing and being, and as a way of making visible their own meaning making. During the documentation process students will establish, examine and communicate research informed values and theoretical underpinnings for their work with young children so that they are able to (re)conceptualise the purpose of early childhood education and examine its underlying assumptions. They will identify values and notions critical for contemporary early childhood educators and high quality early childhood education and care.
Course at a glance
| Career: | Undergraduate |
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Requisites: | This course has no pre/co-requisites |
| Student Contribution Band: | 7 |
| EFTSL: | 0.12500 |
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