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Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Briefing
ECH1017 INTRODUCTION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION
Class Schedule
Week Date Time Activities Remarks
of a person’s life.
• Focuses on guiding children to learn through play.
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o Sensing that they lacked was proper motivation and environment, thus, she
opened a preschool, and it was named as “Casa Di bambini” in 1907.
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must be carefully planned to protect and nurture the child
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THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN THE 1970s
In 1970s, many innovations in instruction were available for school to explore new
strategies in teaching.
Among the instructional innovation used are like the open classroom, individually
guided education and competency-based instruction
Focuses on the self-construction of the child through which he would reveal himself.
Method It helps to create an individual who would care for others, materials, environment, and most importantly
he learns to respect himself
Develops child’s senses, academic skills, practical life exercises and character
Usage of materials-precise-let children select which one will use, expecting them to return the materials
to assigned places when they are finished.
Constructivism is a theory of
knowledge that argues that humans
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generated knowledge and meaning
from an interaction between their
experiences and their ideas.
Innovations : The project was the first large scale effort by the government to
focused on children poverty.
children must have some control over the direction of their learning
The Reggio Emilia Philosophy
Children gave a relationship with other children and materials items in the world that
children must be allowed to explore.
The Reggio Emilia approach to teaching young children puts the natural development
of children as well as the close relationship that they share with their environment at
the center of its philosophy.
Parents are viewed as partners, collaborators and advocates for their children.
Teacher respect parents as each child’s first teacher and involve parents in every aspect
of the curriculum.