1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Nauk Społecznych
3. semestr zimowy 2018/2019
4. WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Pedagogika - Program Erasmus pierwszego stopnia
5. Theoretical Foundations of Early School Education

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Theoretical Foundations of Early School Education - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

Deepening students' understanding of the key issues of early school education related to  educational theories, learning, individual differences, knowledge creation, teacher strategies; developing an ability of stimulating and supporting pupils' activity with the use of different methods, forms and teaching aids tailored to children's capabilities, needs and experience; critical verification of methodological offers available in the literature in the light of educational and psychological theories; designing own solutions that develop the mental processes of early school children

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

-       knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of early school education,

-       psychological knowledge on the cognitive and emotional development of the early school child and the theories underlying the process of learning (behavioral, cognitive, cultural theories)

-       knowledge on general pedagogy and didactics.

Zakres tematyczny

Lecture topics:

• Change of contemporary contexts of children's education, cultural, political and social conditions of the transformation.
• Dimensions  of current disputes about early education: reductionist and constructivist approaches, functionalism and symbolic interactionism in the education of children.
• Development cycle of the child and the importance of external intervention in the educational process.
• Ideologies of thinking about education and the child: varieties of early education discourses, creating conditions for the developmental cognitive change -  methodology of education.
• Types of knowledge in education and their references to early school  education. The community of knowledge  and the curriculum after the reform.
• Education in  open-plan - individualisation and independence in the education of children.
• Methodological and theoretical education of teachers - models of teacher training that facilitate breaking mental barriers.
• Simulating changes in the education of children - map of educational myths and their manifestations.

Class topics

• Supporting and stimulating development - similarities and differences in the perspective of humanistic psychology and constructivist solutions.
• Behaviourism and constructivism in early school education - analysis and interpretation of situations built on the two theories.
• Critical events in working with children. Teacher competence in the construction of critical events.
• Banking concept of education as an oppression tool  Designing alternative solutions derived from the idea of  liberating education.
• Space in  school.  Physical, mental and social dimensions of classroom arrangement.
• Culture and climate of school - culturally adequate and inadequate school (imitation, indoctrination, isolation, and indolence).
• Piaget, Bernstein, Bruner - three theories valuable for early school  education. An attempt to justify their relevance.
• Cultural education and gender – the teacher's image of pupils functioning  in school.
• The organization of pupils' work: group work, pair work, individual and collective work. The choice of tasks and designing situations relevant to the organizational form of M. Lipman in  designing and solving problem situations.
• Socialization in school as a perspective of school process  identification - socialization practices in classes in early school education; directivity / non-directivity of the teacher, student resistance behaviour (suspension, withdrawal, going out of the role, pragmatic resistance, aggressive resistance).
• Mnemonics in early school  education - possibilities and limitations.
• .Competition in the classroom.
• Social knowledge and skills of younger students as a neglected area of early school  education. Searching new perspectives.

Metody kształcenia

-  explaining method: lecture,

-  searching methods: problem teaching, discussion, case studies,

-  practical activites: designing and verifying tasks in practice, observation of children, construction of critical events.

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

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Warunki zaliczenia

- Examination covering the content of all lectures and classes,

- Assessment test,

- Preparation of a series of tasks that stimulate early school children's activity ,

- Designing a class project that illustrates the use of a selected educational theory.

Literatura podstawowa

Literary sources in English will be provided by the lecturer during the course.

Literatura uzupełniająca

Uwagi

*The subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.

Zmodyfikowane przez dr Magdalena Zapotoczna (ostatnia modyfikacja: 11-04-2018 17:08)