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2020/2021

Centres of Education and Early Childhood Education

Code: 102012 ECTS Credits: 8
Degree Type Year Semester
2500797 Early Childhood Education FB 2 A
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Cecilia Inés Suarez Rivarola
Email:
CeciliaInes.Suarez@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Prerequisites

It is recommended:

- To have a functional knowledge of one European Union language (in addition to one's own).

- To read educational papers related to the contents of this course and that are included in the recommended bibliography.

- To have basic research skills.

- To reflect on one's own educational experience.

- To have a predisposition for teamwork.

Objectives and Contextualisation


The course is aimed at analyzing the situation of any educational institution (schools, programs and projects) for children in the educational systems of the European Union, with particular emphasis on systems Catalan and Spanish.

It also is designed to identify and understand the processes and institutions that have promoted and promote innovations in any European territory.

This systematic approach will certainly consider the educational institution as a unit of analysis and intervention.

By the end of this course, students should: 

- Understand the Early Education and Childcare systems and network inside the European region.

- Analyze childcare systems in Spain and Catalonia.

- Identify institutions and innovative programs dedicated to early childhood that promote children's rights.

- Understand the different types of institutions of Early Childhood Education (schools, programs and projects)

Competences

  • Acquire habits and skills for cooperative and autonomous learning and promote the same in pupils.
  • Appreciate the importance of teamwork.
  • Assessing the personal relationship with each student and their family as a quality factor of education.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the role, possibilities and limits of education in today's society and core competencies that affect infant schools and their professionals.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of quality improvement models with application to schools.
  • Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
  • Know about international experiences and examples of innovative practices in infant education.
  • Master social skills in dealing and relating with the family of each pupil and all families.
  • Participate and get involved in the events, meetings and events of the institution to which one belongs.
  • Participate in the development and monitoring of educational programs in infant education in the framework of school projects and in collaboration with the territory and with other professionals and social agents.
  • Place infant schooling in the Spanish education system, and in the European and international context.
  • Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Understand the law governing kindergartens and their organization.
  • Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).

Learning Outcomes

  1. Accept that the diversity and plurality of ideas, practices and educational institutions is a value to defend.
  2. Access basic and contextual information on the main theoretical teaching and practical contributions that affect the teaching profession.
  3. Analyse, contextually and pedagogically, educational projects and national and international assessment reports related to nursery and primary education and that help make decisions in the field of education policy.
  4. Assessing the value of, and respecting the different pedagogical contributions of, different movements and authors of contemporary relevance.
  5. Contrast and synthesize information about infant schools in Catalan, Spanish, European and international education systems, explaining experiences and innovative examples through a study produced by a team.
  6. Critically and independently analyse the main current formulations and pedagogical practices, and be able to defend the assumption of criteria.
  7. Examining the knowledge of the main international, and especially European, pedagogical movements that have influenced contemporary pedagogical theory and practices that affect nursery and primary schooling.
  8. Find out about and develop a monitoring plan for infant education projects in the framework of a school that collaborates with the territory and with other professionals and social agents.
  9. Gaining a deeper knowledge of certain authors and educational movements that have had a special importance in educational thinking and practice in our country.
  10. Identifying the main changes affecting educational practice and the way teachers exercise their profession today.
  11. Observing and describing the main limitations but also the possibilities of current educational projects and practices of different centres and teaching professionals.
  12. Produce, in a group, innovative training proposals that include the typical interdisciplinary teams in an institution of early childhood care.
  13. Understand the historical evolution of the main currents of educational thinking in terms of the various changing contexts that affect teaching.
  14. Understand the main currents of contemporary thought of educational influence and their impact on nursery and primary education.
  15. Using graphic techniques to analyse the legislation regulating infant schools and their organisation.
  16. Using social skills in relationships with children, with families and with the professionals from the centres being studied.
  17. Using techniques such as the genogram, the video frame, family photos and family albums to critically analyse personal and other family relationships.

Content


The Early Childhood Education in the educational system Spanish and Catalan.

  • Different child care services and education in Catalonia and Spain.
  • Legislative support for the family.
  • The school children. Legislative framework.

Situation of Early Childhood Education in the European and international context.

  • Services for children and their families.
  • Attention collective bargaining and individual attention to different European countries.
  • Quantitative and qualitative aspects of the different services.

Educational innovation in stage 0-6. Precedents and current situation.

  • Innovations focus on curriculum development.
  • Innovations focus on the organization of the center.
  • Innovations focus on the relationship with the environment.

Schools Early Childhood Education. Types and functions.

  • Different educational support services for children.
  • Different services to support motherhood and parenting.
  • Activities of daily life.

Methodology

As showed in the following sections, this course is designed considering that the students are at the center of the learning process.

This course includes three types of learning activities: guided, supervised, and self-study activities.

Guided activities are conducted by the teaching staff involving the active participation of the class group in the learning process. These activities can be large group classes, seminars or small group sessions. Classes with the main group are based on presentations of the topics from the syllabus. The seminars and practical sessions are working spaces to deepen, analyze, contrast, debate, experience, reflect and evaluate the contents of the course.

Supervised activities are learning activities in which students, individually and/or in groups, work towards achieving learning. These activities will be structured in a concrete way, presented at the beginning of the course, and allow the deepening and application of the course content.

Self-study activities are carried out independently by the student in order to develop skills and achieve the objectives of the course

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Field Work Seminars 5 0.2 3, 9, 1, 14, 13, 5, 12, 10, 11, 17, 15, 4
Oral presentations and Lectures 15 0.6 2, 3, 9, 1, 14, 13, 5, 12, 10, 11, 17, 15, 4
Reading Seminars 40 1.6 2, 3, 9, 1, 14, 13, 5, 12, 10, 11, 17, 15, 4
Type: Supervised      
Follow-up activities both face-to-face and on-line 20 0.8 2, 6, 13, 8, 12, 10, 11, 17, 4
Self-assessment, peer assessment 20 0.8 2, 6, 14, 8, 12, 10, 11, 16, 17, 4
Type: Autonomous      
Self-Study activities 100 4 6, 9, 1, 5, 8, 12, 16, 17, 15

Assessment

Learning Portfolio

On the first day of the course, the teachers will present the index of the learning portfolio that will include each of the products and the evidence that makes it up, detailing the delivery and review dates of the portfolio.

The activities will be distributed throughout the course in the different seminars. In the indicated sessions, the Learning Portfolio will be presented with the evidences that the student must have carried out according to the terms of the index.

In order to pass the course, each and every one of the evidences of the proposed learning portfolio must be presented and the self-assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment activities must be carried out.

Students who wish to, may carry out voluntary tasks that complement their learning portfolio. These tasks and their evidence cannot replace any of the evidence described in the learning portfolio index.

The feedback of each of the activities in the index of the Learning Portfolio will take place in the public presentation sessions of the portfolio and the student who wishes to carry out an individual review will do so in the office hours established for this course.

In order to pass the course, an average equal to or greater than 5 must be achieved. To be able to do the average with the activities, a minimum of 5 must be obtained in each of the obligatory evaluation activities.

The grades obtained in each of the evaluation activities will be given to the student through the publication of the results in the On-line Campus within 20 days of their delivery. The student who needs to review the grade will have to do so within 15 days after its publication during office hours established.

Students who have adequately followed the course through the year, but still have some aspect not achieved, will be given the opportunity to pass the course, doing additional assignments or redoing some of the activities carried out before. Each case will have to be studied depending on the situation of each student. The teachers will indicate to the students the requirements to be able to recover the parts not overcome.

Students who repeat the course may request only a final summary evaluation, but this must be discussed with the teaching staff at the beginning of the course.

Other Assessment Policies

Attendance in the course's face-to-face classes is compulsory. The student who does not attend at least 80% of the guided sessions and all the evaluation sessions may not be evaluated with the instruments described below and will be considered as not presented.

The supporting documents that are sometimes presented in case of absence serve only to explain the absence, in no case do they exempt from attendance. Only in cases related to medical and legal issues, and duly documented, the faculty responsible for the course may arbitrate, if possible, complementary activities that compensate for the required attendance.

An attitude compatible with the education profession must be shown as a requirement for passing the course. Some skills are active listening, respect, participation, cooperation, empathy, kindness, punctuality, non-judgment, argumentation, proper use of the mobile phone, etc.

To pass this course, the student must show, in the activities proposed, a good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the language or languages used in the syllabus.

We remind you that in the case of Catalan language in 1st and 2nd-year students are required to have a linguistic competence equivalent to Level 1 for Teachers of Childhood and Primary Education; and that from 3rd year onwards students must have shown a competence equivalent to Level 2 for Teachers of Childhood and Primary Education (more information about these levels http://www.uab.cat/web/els-estudis/-competencia-linguistica-1345698914384.html ).

Information rigor and conceptual correctness, clarity and consistency of presentation (oral and written) and linguistic adequacy and correctness will be taken into account. Likewise, the participation, involvement and attitude of the students during the development of the activities and classroom sessions will be considered. The teaching staff may suspend or lower the mark of the activity that they consider does not meet the academic minimums in the aforementioned aspects.

All evaluable activities will be subject to formal criteria, including spelling, wording and presentation. Before delivering evidence of learning, it must be checked that the sources, notes, textual citations and bibliographical references have been correctly written following the APA 7thEd. regulations and according to the documentation summarized in UAB sources:

https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/recdoc/2016/145881/citrefapa_a2016.pdf http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_03.htm

Copying and plagiarism are intellectual theft and therefore constitute a crime that will be punished with a zero in the entire block where the work is located. In the case of copying between two students, if it cannot be known who has copied from whom, the sanction will be applied to both students.

An assignment, activity or test will be considered "copied" when it reproduces all or a significant part of the work of one or more of the other partners.

An assignment or activity will be considered "plagiarized" when it presents as its own a part of an author's text without citing the sources, regardless of whether the original sources are in paper or digital format (more information on plagiarism can be found at

http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html).

Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19.

Tentative assessment dates are:

Group 61: 05/11, 10/12, 25/03 y 13/05. The reassessment date is May 27th.

Grupo 62: 10/09, 29/10, 03/12, 03/03, 19/05 y 02/06. The reassessment date is June 16th.

 
 
 
 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Classroom diary (individual evaluation) 20% 0 0 2, 13, 17, 15
Exam (individual evaluation) 30% 0 0 2, 6, 13, 4
Group Project Situation of Early Childhood Education in the European context (Group Project) 10% 0 0 6, 3, 1, 14, 5, 7, 4
SGroup Project Child and Family Care Services in Catalonia (Group Project) 25% 0 0 2, 6, 3, 9, 1, 14, 5, 8, 12, 11, 16, 15, 4
Seminar activities, practical evidences/ exercises (both individual and small group activities) 15% 0 0 3, 9, 1, 14, 13, 5, 10, 11, 17, 15

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Revistes i pàgines electròniques d'interés:

Diputació de Barcelona

http://www.diba.es/

Institut Infància i adolescència

https://institutinfancia.cat/

Observatorio de la Infancia de la Junta de Andalucía:

https://www.observatoriodelainfancia.es/oia/esp/index.aspx

Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE)

https://www.oecd.org/

Revista Infància a Europa

https://www.rosasensat.org/revistes/infancia-europa/

Temes d'Educació- Generalitat de Catalunya:

http://web.gencat.cat/ca/temes/educacio/

Unió Europea

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en