ECCE 178 Professional Practice I examines the historical, provisional and theoretical underpinnings of early childhood education in British Columbia. We will explore and engage with multiple policy and practice documents that both guide and govern the provision of child care, and early childhood education in this province. We will investigate this sectors complex, and layered inheritances, the separation of care and education, the emerges of kindergarten and the progressive educational movement, tracing the educational philosophies, theorists and emerging theories that continue to underpin and inform this sector. Student will work collaboratively to engage with the BC Childcare Licensing Regulation, ECEBC Code of Ethics, Early Learning Framework of BC and the Occupational Standards for Early Childhood Educators in a variety of simulated workplace examples, and professional practice scenarios. Students will be provided opportunity to use case studies to acquire a more in depth understanding of how we might use these documents for accessing, evaluating and making decisions toward a just, ethical, responsive, and professional early childhood practice and the provision of childcare in our communities.
- Teacher: Veronica Maclean