ED3090 - Social and Environmental Education for Early Childhood
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| Administered by: | School of Education |
The subject is organised around teachers decision making in planning and implementing learnings in social and environmental education in early childhood settings in keeping with new syllabus developments in Queensland, and current trends within Australia and beyond. It aims to develop preservice teachers competence in planning, implementing and assessing engaging and effective learning experiences and programs that position young children as active participants in their society. Students are introduced to principles, debates, key concepts, processes and values in social and environmental education.
Learning Outcomes
- pre-service teachers understand the theoretical orientations, sources of knowledge and pedagogy of social and environmental education for early childhood and primary students;
- pre-service teachers explore links between principles and policies in Studies of Society and Environment and their implementation in planning, delivering and evaluating such programs in early childhood and primary settings;
- pre-service teachers display familiarity with recent syllabus developments by preparing engaging, effective and inclusive units which provide significant learnings in social and environmental education and cater for a variety of learner characteristics, needs and contexts.
| Prerequisites: | 6 units of level 1 ED subjects |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | ED3001 and ED3101 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Margaret Gooch |
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| Assessment: | in-class examinations (40%); collaborative unit plan (50%); student presentation (10%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Michelle Lasen. |
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| Assessment: | in-class examinations (40%); collaborative unit plan (50%); student presentation (10%). |
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.