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EDUCATION 46

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

INTERSESSION AND SUMMER SEMESTER

1978

Instructor: R. Gehibach.

Description

This course is designed to provide students with an up-to-date survey

of alternative models for the management of educational programs for young

children. Emphasis will be placed on kindergarten and primary education in

the public schools, but implications for nursery school and day care programming

will be abundant and clear. Several important areas of research and theory

in learning and child development will be integrated with the investigation

of practical models, so that sudents will become competent in the selection

of appropriate practices for specific learning objectives.

Reading assignments will be substantial, and study guides will be provided

for the material that is particularly challenging to persons without background

in psychology.

Class activities will focus on the practical application of concepts

and information in reading assignments to every day classroom practice. Time

in class will be apportioned among brief lectures, small-group curriculum

projects, and large-group discussion.

Requirements

1.

Four brief, typewritten papers during the first weeks Of the course.

The purpose of these assignments will be to help students to integrate

material studied and to generate early feedback on the quality of their

progress.

2.

A one-week, take-home final examination, the focus of which will be

practical decision making with substantive empirical/theoretical rationale.

Required Texts

Brophy, J., Good., Nedler. Teaching in the Preschool. - Prentice Hall, 1975.

Bijou, S. The Stages of Early Childhood. - Prentice Hall, 1976

Piaget, J. (Sarah F. Campbell, editor). Piaget Sampler. Wi1e, 1976.

Bandura,A. Social Learning Theory, Harper Row.

Recommended Text:.

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Croft, D. Hess, R. An Activities Handbook for Teachers of Young Children,

Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

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