Popular pedagogical approaches
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Pendergast AM, Donna
Garvis, Susanne
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This chapter focuses on pedagogical approaches that are suitable for the early years of school. It looks at approaches considered age-appropriate by the Queensland Government Department of Education and Training (DET, 2019): inquiry learning; play-based learning; the project approach; explicit instruction; an event-based approach; direct teaching. Each of the approaches are discussed in terms of the strategies used and how the approaches connect to the age-appropriate pedagogies. By combining approaches educators can provide a range and balance of age-appropriate pedagogies where the learning is both teacher-initiated and child-initiated with planned as well as spontaneous opportunities. Further considerations in finding a balanced approach are: connected versus disconnected from the natural world; multicultural versus monocultural; and multilingual versus monolingual. These considerations provide a unique opportunity to embed Indigenous perspectives into early childhood education.
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Teaching Early Years: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment
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van Aswegen, EC, Popular pedagogical approaches, Teaching Early Years: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment, 2023, 2nd, pp. 145-165