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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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August 3, 2021
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Welcome, this week how to use popular culture as a springboard for learning also the importance of supporting children's social and emotional learning in the years before big school.
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Scaffolding learning with pop-culture
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Building curriculum on children's interests is an established practice in early childhood education, and with popular, fun and educational television programs winning the hearts and minds of children, it makes sense for educators to engage popular culture as a tool to promote learning opportunities.
Popular culture offers a valuable pathway for educators to implement a contextually relevant and meaningful curriculum in-light of contemporary childhood experiences.
This can include investigating themes such as social and emotional intelligence, taking responsibility for actions and developing a strong sense of belonging.
Episodes of New Zealand's Kiri and Lou or Australia's Bluey offer rich and relatable examples of these themes and connect culturally to the majority of young children.
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Social and emotional learning
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Working with young children in early learning environments means that ELEC teachers are well aware of the rapid rate of development that infants, toddlers and preschoolers experience at this age.
Preparing preschoolers for the transition to primary school involves targeting specific areas for development and helping kids to improve in these areas first and foremost. For a long time, this focus was on the cognitive development of children in early learning environments, particularly literacy and numeracy. As a result, other areas of development that are equally important during these early years - if not even more so – were, at times, neglected.
Today, teachers and educators are becoming more aware of the need to guide young children through their social and emotional development, to help them get ready for starting 'big school' and make the transition as smooth as possible for everyone.
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