Play and Environment

What it covers

The unit provides early childhood pre-service teachers with the characteristics and theoretical approaches to play and collaborative learning and their role in the curriculum. The importance of physical environments and play resources are explored in practice outlining how they promote children’s active engagement with authentic learning and promote the resilience and wellbeing required for success. The unit details relationships between children's play and inquiry across the range of subject disciplines and learning areas and provides students with practical opportunities to analyse experiences that foster learning in early childhood education.

Assessment

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