ED4090 - Integrating Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood Curriculum

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available only to students enrolled in a Bachelor of Education, Graduate Bachelor of Education or Masters of Teaching.

This subject takes as its particular focus the construction of integrated early childhood curriculum through links with theory and the EC educators skills in critically reflective practice. Students will be engaged in the building, analysis and critique of models of integration in early childhood curriculum and the consideration of issues that impact on curriculum delivery in the classroom context. Throughout subject activities, students will be expected to draw extensively upon school and/or centre based professional experiences and to explore the dialectic relationship between theory and practice.

Learning Outcomes

• build, analyse and critique models of integration in EC curriculum;
• continue to explore the dialectic relationship between theory and practice in EC curriculum;
• extend skills and understandings of critically reflective practice.

Prerequisites:	ED3093 (ED3488 or ED3499) and 66 units of BEd subjects
Corequisites:	ED4488

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc128182.
Contact hours:	20 hours 10 hours
Assessment:	(55%); (45%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Successful completion of 75 hours of practicum.
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	Sharn Rocco.
Contact hours:	10 hours 20 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (20%); (30%); (20%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Successful completion of 75 hours of practicum.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.