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ECE413: Comparative Early Childhood Education
This course introduces teacher-education students to comparative early childhood education. It exposes students to a cross-national analysis of early childhood education. The aim is to reveal similarities and differences both in terms of its history and provision of childcare services.
What Will You Learn?
Teacher Of Course
Includes
On completion of this course, you should be able to:
- give a historical account of the practice of early childhood education.
- enumerate the different features of early childhood educational practices in the historical periods of development.
- identify different schools of thought and their theories for early childcare and practice.
- express the various definitions of early childhood education.
- examine the usage of these concepts of early childhood education across societies.
- state national policies and objectives in establishing preschool and education.
- distinguish amongst various patterns of early childhood education services.
- apply knowledge of comparative education to case studies.
- describe early childhood education in Nigeria.
- make case studies of early child care and education across nations.
- examine cause for and effects of reforms in early childhood education.
- describe some innovations, changes and challenges in childhood education.