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Critically evaluates a range of pedagogical approaches to early childhood education, and explores how these approaches influence teachers’ thinking about children’s learning and development in the early years.
This paper critically evaluates a range of pedagogical approaches to early childhood education, and explores how these approaches influence teachers' thinking about children's learning and development in the early years.
Paper title | Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education |
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Paper code | EDUC457 |
Subject | Education |
EFTS | 0.1667 |
Points | 20 points |
Teaching period | Not offered in 2022 (Distance learning) |
Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $1,403.61 |
International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 54 300-level EDUC points
- Restriction
- EDUX 457
- Notes
- Students who have not passed the normal prerequisite may be admitted with approval from the Dean of the College of Education.
- Eligibility
- To successfully complete this paper, students will need either a background in education studies with a focus on early childhood or teaching experience in an early childhood centre.
- Contact
- postgrad.education@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
To be advised when the paper is next offered.
- Paper Structure
We will consider the following kinds of topics and expect students will bring their own ideas to the curriculum as well:
- A socio-historical-cultural examination of thinking, scholarship and practice in pedagogy, including students' own theories of pedagogy and of national and international trends
- Relationships between pedagogy and socio-historical-cultural shifts in thinking about children, childhood, learning, teaching and early childhood education (research and policy based)
- Research, scholarship and theory of pedagogy
- Interrelatedness of pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and learning: implications for teachers' practice and children's learning
There are three assignments, all of which can build on each other. First up will be an annotated bibliography of about 10-15 studies on a topic of student choice related to socio-historical-cultural research and theory around pedagogy. Then an essay on the student identified topic will be prepared (5,000-7,000 words) and followed up with the third assessment, which will be a poster presentation (online) of the inquiry.
- Teaching Arrangements
This paper is taught online, with students not required to be online at set times although some negotiation over co-ordinated online meetings will be expected. The paper is fully internally assessed.
- Textbooks
Students will be expected to access required readings via the library and the internet and to source their own relevant readings.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Critical thinking.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Critically analyse, appraise, compare and contrast different theoretical and research perspectives on pedagogy
- Critically explain socio-historical-cultural influences on pedagogy, including implications for teachers' practices
- Appraise and explain relationships between theories of pedagogy and theories of learning in and for early childhood education