Exploring Early Childhood

Course Description:

Exploring Early Childhood Stage 6 aims to develop understanding, skills and strategies to enable students to support and foster positive growth and development in the young children with whom they interact through the provision of safe, nurturing and challenging environments.

Students will develop:

• knowledge and understanding about the physical, social-emotional, behavioural, cognitive and language development of young children

• knowledge and understanding about the environmental factors that have an impact upon young children’s growth and development

• knowledge and understanding about the development and maintenance of positive behaviours and relationships with young children

• skills in communication and interaction

• skills in research and analysis

• skills in decision making and evaluation

• respect for the individuality and uniqueness of young children and their families

• an appreciation of the value and importance of supportive and responsible relationships with young children.