Learning outcomes and content
This course is suitable to early childhood education teachers, teacher students and for you who are interested in participation.
Student
- is acquainted with the word participation and recognizes the meaning what participation and to participate means to a child
- can analyze, argue and reflect both her/his own and also her/his organization´s way to help children to participate
- recognize a child´s participation in daily life and the meaning of participation to a child´s development, what participation means in schooling and how to meet, scaffold a child – and how to hear a child´s voice
- is able to develop her/his pedagogical thinking and learning new methods to increase participation in the organization.
Content
Contents The complexity of participation is scrutinized on the view of children, parents and teachers/personnel. Children´s well-being is scrutinized on the view of pedagogical quality which means children´s own stories, agency, everyday practices and meaning of sociocultural surroundings.
