Module Code: | EC8404 | ECTS Credits: | 5 |
Overview
This module builds on the module in the first year (JF) of the programme called Curriculum and Pedagogical Perspectives: Dispositions and Play. Students, now in their fourth year of the programme (SS) and having had the benefit of three years of academic work and practical experience in the field, are ideally placed to interrogate ideas and theories around best practice of playful pedagogy.
It is important that early years’ graduates are equipped to confidently articulate and defend a research-led, play-based approach to learning in the early years and additionally to mediate and support child-led and adult-supported playful learning through an emergent curriculum.
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to
Articulate and defend a research-based approach to working playfully with children in an early years’ context
Outline an agile and responsive approach to children’s emergent playful learning needs (PLO2)
Describe the particular play needs of 1-3-year-old children, including children with additional learning needs (PLO 2).
Use Aistear, the Irish curriculum framework for children aged 0-6, as a planning and practice resource for working in an early years’ setting (PLO2)
Adapt play activities to facilitate children with additional needs (PLO2, PLO4, PLO5, PLO7, PLO11)
Apply theoretical ideas to analyse play-based practice
Analyse their experience of playful learning on previous placement and propose adjustments for improved future placement practice.