EDU 363: Infants and Toddlers in Early Childhood Education

3 credits

This course will cover developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education with a focus on infants and toddlers. Students will learn to develop curriculum and study theories behind early childhood curriculum approaches. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the value of healthy attachment to caregivers, social and emotional development, play and imagination, and the role these play in the young child’s natural desire to learn. Much of the material we will these play in the young child’s natural desire to learn. Much of the material we will cover in this course is based on a philosophy of respect developed by early childhood educator and founder of Resources for Infant Educares, Magda Gerber. Our text will guide us through our studies of early childhood education for infants and children under three years old. Resources easily accessed through the internet will supplement our text as we explore early childhood education and related issues for the older young child (up to age six).