Operational Culture Supporting the Inclusiveness of Early Childhood Education and Care and Multidisciplinary Cooperation (10 op)

Tavoitteet

Opiskelija osaa
- kehittää ja vahvistaa varhaiskasvatuksen osallisuutta ja moninaisuutta tukevaa toimintakulttuuria
- toimia sensitiivisesti ja perheiden ja lasten moninaisuutta huomioiden ja tukien
- tukea lapsen ja perheen kokonaisvaltaista hyvinvointia varhaiskasvatuksessa
- ohjata lapsia ja perheitä tarvittavien palvelujen ja tukitoimien piiriin
- suunnitella, toteuttaa ja arvioida ja kehittää monialaista yhteistyötä lapsi- ja perhelähtöisesti

Oppimateriaali ja suositeltava kirjallisuus

Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care (2018)
https://laurea.finna.fi/Record/3amk.89982
Recommended to buy (you will need it throughout your studies and work in early education) online from National Agency for Education, price 20 €:
https://verkkokauppa.oph.fi/EN/page/product/national-core-curriculum-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-2018/2555301.

Other literature is openly available online - will be informed when the course starts.

Toteutustapa

The course is part of the qualification of an early childhood education and care social pedagogue / teacher (varhaiskasvatuksen sosionomi / opettaja).

The lessons and workshops will take place online via Zoom. Attendance requirement at online lessons and workshops will be 80% / 100% to achieve the versatile theoretical and practical skills required for an early childhood education social pedagogue / teacher.

The course includes individual, paired and small group assignments, working life cooperation, home study and knowledge sharing seminars. Instructions for the assignments will be available at Canvas workspace a week before the course start.

Työelämäyhteistyö ja/tai TKI

Visiting experts and working life cooperation is utilized in learning tasks and project work.

Toteutuksen tärkeät päivämäärät

6 x 3 h online lessons
The student must be present at the first lesson or inform the responsible teacher of absence in order to confirm their participation in the study. Also the last lesson is compulsory. If you miss 1-2 lessons, you need to study to theme of the lesson individually and write a report of the topic given in Canvas.

Toteutuksen valinnaiset suoritustavat

1) RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
Any competence that corresponds to the learning outcomes of the course can be included in it through recognition and accreditation of prior learning. The starting point is competence-based thinking: what matters is your competence itself, not how and where you acquired it. The procedures for the recognition and accreditation of prior learning are Recognition of prior studies and Demonstration of competence.
Where to start:
At first you would need to go carefully through the objectives, contents and assignments of the course to evaluate if there would be some entity / several entities where you already have know-how and competence? If yes, think how you can demonstrate your competence (e.g. earlier certificates, individual essay, short research or development project at your workplace, report, portfolio). Within one week of the start of the course contact the responsible teacher kati.rintakorpi@laurea.fi to arrange a Zoom meeting where we will discuss and identify your competence and agree on the method of demonstrating your competence.

OR

2) RECOGNITION OF WORK-BASED LEARNING
If you are working in ECEC at the same time that studying it would be possible to find an alternative way to complete the course or some part of it by recognizing what information and skills you can learn (or have already learned) at your workplace.
Where to start?
At first you would need to go carefully through the objectives, contents and assignments of the course to analyze if there would be some entity / several entities which you can learn at your work place?
If yes, think how you can learn those things in practice and how you can demonstrate your competence (e.g. essay, short research or development project at your workplace, report, portfolio).
Within one week of the start of the course contact the responsible teacher kati.rintakorpi@laurea.fi to arrange a Zoom meeting where we will discuss and identify your work situation, general and personal goals and agree on the method of learning and demonstrating your competence.

Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

The course requires attendance on 6 x 3 hour online lessons via Zoom > active participation required.
Other parts of the course can be studied & implemented freely by the students in the given course timeline. For pair works (essay, project) the students need to fix their schedules to fit with each other.
The total scope of the course is 270 hours of student's work.

Sisältö ja sen jaksotus

In the course, you will actively reflect on your own activities as an educator in a diverse operating environment. You will get to know the learning community and how it is built together with children and families, taking diversity into account. In the Study Course, we approach inclusion through digital methods and pedagogical documentation. In the Study Course, we find perspectives on children's holistic well-being from the perspectives of inclusive early childhood education, multidisciplinary cooperation, and support for children and families.

The performance of the course consists of three entities:

2 credits Me on my way to become an expert on inclusion and diversity in early childhood education
4 credits Operational culture of inclusion and diversity (in-person teaching, assignments and group work)
4 credits Multidisciplinary cooperation (in-person teaching and project)

Arviointiasteikko

H-5