Activity 3.1 | Curriculum: Engaging in Curriculum Making
| Site: | RRU Open Educational Resources |
| Course: | Responsive Pedagogical Approaches in ECE |
| Book: | Activity 3.1 | Curriculum: Engaging in Curriculum Making |
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| Date: | Sunday, 11 May 2025, 3:53 PM |
Curriculum Design
“[Curriculum] is nonlinear, messy, iterative, deeply theoretical, and yet highly intuitive, drawing on local, situated knowledges and relationships. It is about living with curriculum as always already happening with/in the daily experiences of young children and their families in child care”
(Hewes et al., 2019).
Read Hewes et al. (2019), who share a "story of curriculum meaning-making that opened a hopeful space for critical pedagogical reflection and changed practice serves as a basis for deeper reflection."After completing this reading, consider:
- How is the curriculum being created in your context? Who contributes?
- What opportunities are there for Educators to engage in collaborative dialogue on pedagogy and curriculum?
- Where are there opportunities for co-learning, co-researching and co-imagining curriculum between educators or between educators and children?
Document your thoughts in your journal.
Reference
Hewes, J., Lirette, T., Makovichuk, L., & McCarron, R. (2019). Animating a Curriculum Framework Through Educator Co-Inquiry: Co-Learning, Co-Researching, and Co-Imagining Possibilities. Journal of Childhood Studies, 44(1), 37-53. CC-BY https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs.v44i1.18776