Overview
- Presents a Vygotskian (CHAT) approach to Early childhood Education
- Gives an explanation of the concept and potentials of a play-based curriculum
- Forms of dynamic assessment and continuous observation of pupils’ development are described in detailed ways
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 7)
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Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children’s cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community. From the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT), a play-based curriculum has been developed over the past decades for primary school, which presents activity contexts for pupils in the classroom that create learning and teaching opportunities for helping pupils with appropriating cultural knowledge, skills, and moral understandings in meaningful ways. The approach is implemented in numerous Dutch primary schools classrooms with the explicit intention to support the learning of both pupils and teachers. The book focuses especially on education of young children (4 – 8 years old) in primary school and presents the underpinning concepts of this approach, and chapters on examples of good practices in a variety of subject matter areas, such as literacy (vocabulary acquisition, reading, writing), mathematics, and arts. Successful implementation of Developmental Education in the classroom strongly depends on dynamic assessment and continuous observations of young pupils’ development. Strategies for implementation of both the teaching practices and assessment strategies are discussed in detail in the book.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Developmental Education: Core Issues
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Good Practices of Developmental Education
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Implementing the Play-Based Curriculum of Developmental Education
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Implementing the Play-based Curriculum of Developmental Education
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developmental Education for Young Children
Book Subtitle: Concept, Practice and Implementation
Editors: Bert van Oers
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4616-9Published: 17 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9400-9Published: 18 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4617-6Published: 16 June 2012
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 302
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Curriculum Studies, Educational Psychology