ECE301 - Understanding Early Childhood Education and Learning Environments

Unit details

Enrolment modes:	(B) (G,X-WEXP) (W,X-WEXP)
Credit point(s):	.75
EFTSL value:	0.094
Cohort rule:	(For students enrolled in courses E420 and E421 only)
Unit chair:	A Morrissey
Corequisite:	ECE300
Contact hours:	The Early Childhood Course at Burwood (City Program) requires the students to attend on a weekly basis i.e. Full-time students attend on a Thursday and Friday throughout the trimester, and Part-time students attend on a Friday throughout the trimester. The students undertaking the Rural Program out of Geelong and Warrnambool undertake the majority of their studies off-campus but attend Intensives 3 times a trimester for 2 days (Full-time students) and 1 day (Part-time students).

Content

Drawing upon theories relating to early childhood education, child development and the relationship between the environment and child learning, this unit explores the key characteristics of creative, supportive and responsive learning environments. Through the unit students will acquire skills to support the design, construction and management of diverse indoor and outdoor learning environments that are able to respond to the specific needs of diverse individual learners, and their families.

Assessment

Task 1: Reflective observation tasks of specific early childhood learning environments (Two assessments 15% and 15%).

 

Task 2: (Two assessments 30% and 40%)

• Presentation on a learning environment designed and/or constructed by the student with accompanying analysis of its goals and key characteristics and feedback from staff, families and children regarding the environment;
• Review and evaluate the outcomes of a series of programming and/or teaching-learning activities across the Trimester in their placement or other professional setting;
• An ongoing self-assessment of students own beliefs in relation to key theoretical perspectives and the learning and teaching environment, as well as a critical review of the impact this has on different learning environments highlighting key features (including strengths and weaknesses) and their capacity to respond to diverse learners.

Assessment will total 4000 words or equivalent.

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*	Student Contribution Rate**	Fee rate - Domestic Students	Fee rate - International students
$550	$440	$1724	$1836

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.