EDU740 Trends & Issues in Early and Middle Childhood Education

[3–0, 3 cr.]

Early childhood (0-8 years) is one of the most important learning stages of the human life-cycle. Innovations in the brain-sciences are providing early year practitioners/policy makers with information pointing to exciting new pedagogical/curricula ideas that can enhance learning during this critical learning stage. This course provides practitioners/policy makers working in early childhood with an overview of local/global level challenges and new praxes in the field, through the exploration of extant research. This course has a research emphasis and participants will improve their research skills through engaging with the literature on early years education.