Learning in Early Childhood (5 ECTS)
Code: SX00BZ78-3015
General information
- Enrollment
- 03.05.2021 - 16.05.2021
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 23.08.2021 - 31.12.2021
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 15
- Degree programmes
- Social Services (in English)
- Social Services
- Teachers
- Sylvia Hakari
- Saila Nevanen
- Course
- SX00BZ78
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to support and guide children’s growth, development and learning. They will know how to support and enrich children’s play. They will detect and identify children’s different individual and group needs and take them into account in activity planning and implementation. Students will apply different methods of support and early childhood support practices.
Content
Theories of child development and concepts of learning. Zone of proximal development. Exploratory learning. Observation, documentation and support of children’s development and activities. Peer relationships. Play, theo-ries of play, and the significance of play in children’s learning.
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Assessment:
Assessment criterias see the attachment.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.