Singapore University of Social Sciences

ECE525 Investigating Curricular Content and Constructivist Pedagogies offers students the opportunity to (re)conceptualise how your children should learn (i.e., curriculum) and how they can be better-engaged in group-based early childhood education (ECE) settings (i.e., pedagogy) based on the image of the child. Regardless of the level of professional experience that students may have had in ECE curriculum development and instruction, this course aims to update and deepen their curricular knowledge and understanding of child-centric pedagogies. Students will be able to choose an ECE curriculum area of their choice to update their existing curricular knowledge and development skills. Students will receive the study guides, readings and classroom recordings from two undergraduate ECE courses of their choice (*from a recommended list) and they will embark on an individual review of the relevant concepts, gather more research-based literature and review contemporary child development research to expand their current knowledge, to aid in their final creation of an individual curriculum plan and framework that will be suited to young children of different age groups (birth to age six). They will also be engaged in group work to review and critique readymade curricular materials.