Dept. of Education and Teaching Methods

PÄN007 The Pre-School and the Natural Environment - Local Communi 22.5 ECTS credits

DENNA SIDA FINNS OCKSÅ PÅ SVENSKA

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TIMEPERIOD: Q1, Q2

LANGUAGE: Swedish

EXAMINER
Crister Björk Univ adj

PREREQUISITES
To have passed the previous courses: PÄP002 Working in Pre-School-The Role of the Pre-School teacher PÄS002 The Pre-School Within the Community

COURSE AIM
The students should have knowledge about nature and environment in the local community, climatology and geology, ecological relations, ecological systems and their perseverance, chemistry and everyday technique and also forestry , agriculture, fishing and reindeer breeding. The students should work on and develop: -an ecolocical approach as base on environmental consciousness. The students should be able to plan, carry out and evaluate: -a goal-directed activity where children«s conception of the world around us is the basis and the local culture makes the central means.

CONTENTS
The course comprises five days of industrial located field studies,two days in forestry and three days in agriculture with on night in the open air. Winter ecology is carried out during the examination and supplementary week, for the studies in the autumn term, which falls in follwing spring term, in January. The course includs also teaching practice in pre-school. Some items are obligatory. One day of education in child accident care is also part of the course.

TEACHING
Lectures, lessons, seminars as well as practical assignments in pre-school activity.

EXAMINATION
Assessments of teaching practice, practice report, carried out assignments in the different subjects of the course and also oral/written examination of the course literature.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass.

ITEMS AND CREDITS 
                                                            	4.5 ECTS
                                                            	6.0 ECTS
                                                            	4.5 ECTS
                                                            	7.5 ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
-. (1991).Vår flora i färg. Ivar Elvers färgplanscher. Almqvist & Wiksell. -. (1981, 1982).Runt i naturen del 1. Utbildningsradion. Ahlberg, A (1995). Att möta matematiken i förskolan. Rapport nr 1995:14. Inst. för pedagogik, Göteborgs Universitet. Andersson, L. (1993).Naturen och människan. Introduktion till ekologi och miljövård. Hallgren och Fallgren. Doverborg, E, Pramling, I & Qvarsell, B. (1991).Temaarbete. Lärarens metodik och barnens förståelse. Utbildningsförlaget. Hubendick, B. (1989).Vi på vår jord. Gidlund. Jakobsson-Åhl, G. Vardagslivets kemi. Häften köpes på institution. Lindkvist, G. (1989).Från fakta till fantasi. Om temaarbete utifrån skapande ämnen och lek. Studentlitteratur. Rönnlund, B. (1990).Teori och experiment för lärare och elever del 1. Norrlands skolkonsult. Socialstyrelsen. (1990).Lära i förskolan. SOU:1990:4. Socialstyrelsen.(1987).Pedagogiskt program för förskolan. SOU:1987:3. Allmänna förlaget. Stepfansson, O m fl. Jord berg, luft, vatten. Utbildningsradion. Wallström, B. (1992).Möte med Fröbel. Studentlitteratur. REFERENSLITTERATUR Fischer, U & Madsen, B. (1984).Titta här! En bok om barns uppmärksamhet. Liber.

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