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Course Catalog 1998/99


Education and Teaching Methods

PÄP619 Working with Six-years old School-Children 15.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q1, Q2

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Ulla Berg Univ adj


PREREQUISITES
General eligibility for admission.


COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to:
¥ give in-depth knowledge about children´s development and learning with its emphasis on the age period 5-7,
¥ to simplify and stimulate to an increased co-operation between pre-school, school and day-centre for school-age children,
¥ to give a preparedness before the work with children in school age.


CONTENTS
ITEM 1.
Children´s development - children´s thoughts - metacognition.
Control documents and different vocational roles.
Educational traditions, different view of knowledge and of learning.
To work in a work group.
ITEM 2.
Ethics in the everyday of education.
Childrens play and creative activity and significance for children´s development and learning.
Children´s language development.
Acquisition of reading skills, writing skills and mathematical skills.
ITEM 3.
Work with development.


TEACHING
The form of the teaching is lectures, discussions, seminars, practical work - individual and in group - and a work with development.


EXAMINATION
The students will be graded on their written and oral examination, individual and in group.

COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass.

ITEMS/CREDITS
Development with work 6.00ECTS
Ethics,play,language developm.,acquisition of reading skills 4.50ECTS
Children's develop., contr.document, trad., work groups 4.50ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Dahlgren, G m.fl. (1993). Barn upptäcker skriftspråket. Liber.
Diderichen, A m.fl. (1994). 6 år och på väg in i skolan. Studentlitteratur.
Doverborg, Österberg & Pramling. Att förstå barns tankar - metodik för barnintervjuer. Almqvist & Wiksell.
Gren, J (1994). Etik i pedagogens vardag. Liber.
Johnsen H¿ines, M (1990). Matematik som språk.ÊUtbildningsförlaget.
Lennéer-Axelsson, B (1991). Arbetsgruppens psykologi. Natur och Kultur.
Linden, N. Stöd för barns inlärning. Runa förlaget.
Moyles, J R (1995). Släpp in leken i skolan. Runa förlaget.
Patel, R & Davidsson, B (1994). Forskningsmetodikens grunder. Studentlitteratur.
Skolverket (1994). Bildning och kunskap. Skolverket.
Socialstyrelsen (1995). Barnomsorgen i socialtjänsten. Fritzes Kundtjänst.
Socialstyrelsen (1987). Pedagogiskt program för förskola. Allmänna förlaget.
Socialstyrelsen (1988). Pedagogiskt program för fritidshem. Allmänna förlaget.
Utbildningsdepartementet. LPO-94, Läroplan för det obligatoriska skolväsendet.

REFERENSLITTERATUR
Doverborg, Pramling & Qvarsell (1991). Inlärning och utveckling. Almqvist & Wiksell.
Hagtved, E (1990). Skriftspråksinlärning genom lek. Natur & Kultur.
Jerlang, E (1992). Barns utveckling - en helhet. Runa.
Marton, F. Hur vi lär. Rabén & Sjögren.
Rubinstein, L R (1996). Observera mera. Studentlitteratur.


REMARKS


Further information: Ulla Berg


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