6510.23 - The Transition from Pre-School to Primary-School and Time-Leisure-Centers I

6510.23

The Transition from Pre-School to Primary-School and Time-Leisure-Centers I

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The purpose for the course is for the students to acquire professional knowledge and theoretical foundation for the work within the transition from pre-school to primary school and leisure-time-centres. They will get an insight into the pedagogue’s field of expertise.

• Laws and policies concerning the pre-school, primary school, and leisure-time-centers area • The transition between pre-school and primary school /time-leisure-centers. • The pedagogy of change and transition – building bridges - and transitional objects • Storytelling • Creative pedagogical philosophy • Aesthetic learning approaches • “Bildung” and development • Socialization and well-being • Play and learning • The learning- and play environment • Co-operation and co-operational approaches. • Parental collaboration • The pedagogues’ responsibilities in pre-schools and primary schools

Lectures, individual, participating and reflecting groupwork/assignments, project work. Fieldwork, group presentations, guidance, and evaluation.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to: • Critically describe what distinguishes the pre-schools, primary schools, and the leisure-time-centers area as a field of research, based on relevant laws and policies within the field. • Analyse how children are shaped, cultured and socialized regarding the transitional adversity that they go through with emphasis on the transition from pre-school to primary-school/time-leisure-centers. • Be capable of entering and organizing collaboration with others and be able to analyse cross-professional co-operation, how attitudes, working methods and the pedagogues/teachers individual responsibility affects possibility for children’s development, learning and well-being. • Prepare, carry out and evaluate an aesthetical learning process based on professionalism, play, creativity, imagination, and innovation. · Be able to intertwine and reflect on pedagogical themes and responsibilities in praxis with a theoretical foundation, which emphasises on well-being, learning and development.

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The reading list will be handed out at the beginning of the course.

Sonja Olsen