Series | Book
Developmental education for young children
concept, practice and implementation
Abstract
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.
Details | Table of Contents
foundations of a play-based curriculum
pp.13-25
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_2basic development
pp.41-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_4pp.67-86
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_5pp.121-136
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_8promoting aesthetic thinking
pp.137-147
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_9teaching young children with special needs
pp.149-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_10exploring the situation with teachers
pp.189-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_12pp.207-221
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_13pp.271-287
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_17actual and future consequences of implementing and researching developmental education
pp.289-296
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_18Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2012
Pages: 299
Series: International perspectives on early childhood education and development
Series volume: 7
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-4616-9
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-4617-6
Full citation:
van Oers Bert (2012) Developmental education for young children: concept, practice and implementation. Dordrecht, Springer.