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466-110 Curriculum Theory 1A

Note: Special Requirement: A minimum attendance of 80 per cent is required for field days.

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Glenda MacNaughton.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week, and eight 3-hour field days.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• understand and appreciate the diversity of current approaches to defining curriculum in contemporary education;
• apply this understanding to curriculum development in a range of early childhood settings; and
• demonstrate an indepth understanding of one of the current approaches influential in early childhood settings, developmentally-based curriculum.

Content:

An introductory study of curriculum; relating approaches to early childhood contexts. A study of developmentally-appropriate practice with particular reference to early childhood settings.

Assessment:

A journal (25 per cent); and an essay of 2750 words (75 per cent).

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