Pedagogical Issues in Early Childhood Education [electronic resource] / Lilian G. Katz.
Current understandings of children's development suggest that a pedagogy is appropriate for young children if: (1) it is largely informal in structure; (2) attends to children's dispositional and emotional development and development of knowledge and skills; (3) is mainly intellectual rath...
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| Summary: | Current understandings of children's development suggest that a pedagogy is appropriate for young children if: (1) it is largely informal in structure; (2) attends to children's dispositional and emotional development and development of knowledge and skills; (3) is mainly intellectual rather than academic in focus; (4) balances individual and cooperative group work on intellectually engaging tasks; and, (5) makes systematic instruction available to individual children as needed. In this document, the view of appropriate pedagogy just described is elaborated by discussions of three questions: (1) What should be learned? (2) When should it be learned? and (3) How is it best learned? The first question is discussed in terms of four types of learning goals: knowledge, skills, dispositions, and feelings. The second question is discussed in terms of the normative dimension of development and three subcategories of the dynamic dimension of development: ways in which human beings change; delayed impact of early experience; and long-term, cumulative effect of repeated or frequent experiences. The third question is discussed in terms of principles of pedagogical practice applicable to the four categories of learning goals and pedagogical principles generally applicable to most goals of early childhood programs. (RH) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED321840. |
| Physical Description: | 34 pages |