Early childhood educationLaajuus (6 cr)

Objective

The students know individual, communal and societal factors related to educational partnership. He or she promotes equality and tolerance and strives for the prevention of marginalisation. The students are aware of the significance of early childhood education multiprofessionalism in early childhood education work. The students know the essential health problems of children and youth, and they can guide youth and families towards health promotion and welfare.

Content

Early childhood education work, Services of Early childhood education, Parental engagement, multiprofessionalism, recent studies on early childhood education, child policy, children's rights, Health problems of children at different stages of life; their treatment, rehabilitation and health promotion and welfare of children and their families.

Qualifications

The students recognise the basic concepts of early childhood education, legal papers that regulate early childhood education and the operational environments of early childhood education. They also recognise the main characteristics of the growth and development of children. The students know human anatomy and basic physiological functions and they can observe them.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Very good - Excellent (4-5):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on an excellent level. The student participates in contact lessons and conversations in online environment and he/she completes the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows excellent capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to consider them critically. He/she knows how to utilize both Finnish and English sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Good (3): The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a good level. The student participates in contact lessons and the conversations in online environment and he/she completed the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to utilize sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Sufficient - Satisfactory (1-2):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a satisfactory level. The student participates occasionally in contact lessons and only a little or not at all in conversation in online environment. He/she completes the agreed assignments satisfactorily. In written assignments, he/she shows modest capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and he/she utilizes sources very little. The student follows only partly the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Fall (0): The student does not achieve the objectives and the competences of the course. Written tasks are not completed.