ECE111 - Curriculum 1: Pedagogies and Play

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Karen Guo
Cohort rule:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in E330, E333 or E334

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3-hour seminar per non-placement teaching weeks

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per non-placement teaching weeks

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

An understanding of early curriculum theory and its implementation is essential for the early childhood professional. The emergence of Belonging, Being & Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework of Australia has given a new stimulus for examining early childhood curriculum. There are many different organizational and cultural contexts of early childhood and these differ also according to the age range of service provision. Current models of curriculum exist in early childhood centres in Australia and these will be reviewed critically.

Students need to understand and apply the principles of curriculum development. As a reflective and critical practitioner, they need to be able to make provision for the children in many diverse cultures of multicultural Australia. In addition, there are many contemporary curriculum issues that are important considerations for curriculum design, including attachment theory, the primary caregiver concept and circle of security, continuity in curriculum design, early childhood pedagogies, and assessing developmental learning outcomes, supporting the culture of the home and establishing supportive, respectful and responsive relationships in work with children, families and communities.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Explain the role of play for children’s learning and development in the early years

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO2

Analyse and discuss types of play children engage in during their early years, and identify how the interpretation of play types allows teachers to monitor children’s development

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical Thinking

ULO3

Analyse and apply contemporary theories, issues and curriculum documents associated with play-based teaching and learning for young children

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO4

Examine and discuss teaching pedagogies associated with play based learning

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Play, learning and play-based pedagogy 1500 words
or equivalent
40% Week 5
Assessment 2 - Learning environment design 2500 words
or equivalent
60% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECE111
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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