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    EJ.IJC
    464-4 ?
    Wednesday:
    4:3O-5C
    P.M.
    Early Childhood Education
    Summer Semester, 1980
    L. Baker
    This section of the course will be handled in an
    eclectic manner as a survey of selected educational ideas and
    practices regarding learning during the early childhood period of
    growth and development. It will be required of each student to
    attend class sessions, play a part in group discussions and
    presentations and read to acquire background information in at
    least one of the following areas:
    1.
    physical and social child development factors (birth to seven)
    2.
    first language acquisition
    3.
    the preoperational stage in cognition
    4.
    early childhood education programs- past and present
    Text
    ? dA1gnments
    No text purchase is necessary. Some xeroxing of pertinent
    articles will be advocated during the course. The completion of two
    assignments will be required.
    1.
    An observationalreport on some aspect of a young child's behavior.
    2.
    A concise, thoughtful summary relating principles and practices in
    an area or facet of early childhood education of concern and interest
    to the student. General topics will be available as well as the
    opportunity to contract to pursue a particular line of inquiry of
    the students own. Ample guidaxce
    in
    the researching of topics will
    be offered.

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