ECE705 - Integrative Curriculum Concepts in Play-Based Contexts: Mathematics and Science
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E661, E761 or E764 |
| Prerequisite: | E764: 2 units from: EEE754, EEE755, EEE756, EPR761, EPR771 or EPR781 E661, E761: Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECE763 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 8-9 weeks) |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week 1 x 1-hour online meeting per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 8-9 weeks) |
| In-person attendance requirements | Students who are completing professional experience (placements) are not required to attend lectures or scheduled synchronous sessions during the professional experience (placement). |
Content
In this unit, students will examine and critically evaluate the role of inquiry as play-based learning, and the ways that children engage with and incorporate scientific and mathematics concepts, and ways of thinking in and through play for meaning-making. The unit will emphasise an integrative approach to mathematics and science learning that engages children's playful exploration of, and questions about their everyday experiences that drives their mathematical and scientific investigation and experimentation.
Students will critically evaluate and apply advanced knowledge of theory and pedagogy principles to assess and create opportunities for children to explore their theories and questions about how the world works mathematically and scientifically. Students will develop advanced knowledge of informed, responsible teaching practices that intentionally develop, extend and enrich children’s mathematical and scientific knowledge and ways of thinking, and foster positive learning dispositions towards mathematics and science based disciplinary learning.
The critical role of the educator's disciplinary specific knowledge of mathematics and science in creating mathematically and scientifically rich environments and developing, enriching and sustaining children's disciplinary learning will be emphasised, and the core disciplinary knowledge required for this will be developed.
Unit Fee Information
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