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EDEC28006 Examining the Early Childhood Education and Care Context

Examining the Early Childhood Education and Care Context

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General Information

Overview

Early Childhood education and care services have an important role in ensuring that Australia’s vision for all children to thrive in their early years will be accomplished. Enacting curriculum with children to ensure their holistic development requires thoughtful decision making that draws on professional knowledge, knowledge of children and local contexts, and understandings of the relevant learning framework. As you examine approaches to curriculum that are responsive to children, you will consider also how the way we view children impacts our work with them. You will research and apply strategies for gathering data about children’s learning with particular attention given to sharing information with stakeholders. You will analyse the learning of children to document their curiosities, capabilities, discoveries, knowledge skills, theories and involvement in learning. Drawing on your engagement with observing, assessing and documenting learning, you will reflect critically to determine implications for your future learning and practice.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate

Unit Level: Level 8

Credit Points: 6

Student Contribution Band: 7

Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

There are no requisites for this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).