Early Childhood Education Essay 2022

Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Early Childhood Education
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1EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
The expression ‘early childhood’ refers to the period which starts from the period before the age
of compulsory schooling; this stage usually differs from one country to another. The age of ‘early
childhood’ is the country of UK is 5 years, 6 years old in the United States of America, France, Italy and
Germany and 7 years old in Sweden and Netherlands (unesdoc.unesco.org, 2019). There are different
approaches to teaching the children in their early childhood. This education is usually known as pre-
school education, the time before the beginning of the formal education. This period is perceived in
different manner in different states. Usually before the child goes off to school, the child receives his/her
primary socialization from the family, and then they go to pre-school where they are taught about the
basic of things that are required for the kid before the school. Pre-school should be compulsory for all the
kids as they get to learn new things that are required before the school, they learn to play to with things,
socialize with the other kids and this will help the kid grow and when he/she goes off to school the
transition would not be too difficult (Murray, 2015). In the country of Australia the age of pre-school is
usually 3-5 years (Millei & Jones, 2014). This essay will analyze the range of Australian State and
Territory approaches to early childhood documentation, planning and assessment methodologies and
pedagogies.
The different states of Australia have different approaches to early childhood learning
pedagogies. The government of South Australia department for education and child development believe
in the fact the children from an early age should be acquainted with the education and should receive
quality teaching and learning (www.education.sa.gov.au. 2019). According to the south Australian
government, the early childhood educators are professionals who practice those aspects of living that
involves nurturing relationships, curriculum, decision making, learning and teaching. The United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, believes that valuing the rights of the young children is of
utmost importance (raisingchildren.net.au, 2019). There should be a proper method of communication
that has to be developed and that will children learn new things and improve their life. The UN
declaration also believes that the reflecting on the pedagogies of the early childhood education will also

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mean that the teaching practices have to be reflected on. Educators who deal with the pedagogies that
focus on the early childhood education should have an innate connection with the children and should be
willing to invest as much is required so that the children get the best education without any compromises.
The pedagogies will look different for different classrooms and different groups of students and rightly so
because the needs of the student vary from one child to another. There are children who require more
attention than any other batch of students, the teacher needs to be dedicated and provide that amount of
support to the children (Cumming, Sumsion & Wong, 2015). The teacher should be willing to provide as
much as possible to the students, because a lot of times the time might the teacher might face a scarcity of
resources. In those cases the teacher need to give the best they can with whatever resources is available
online. The south Australian government also believes in the fact that the children should be allowed to
be themselves. Their times, their capabilities should be respected by the teachers. The teacher should not
try and impose things that are beyond the capabilities of the child. The teacher should be able to gauge the
capability of the children. The teacher should only teach the students the things that are important to them
and the things that will help them grow, some students might be able understand all the lesson, in that
case the educator should take his/her time and teach the kid. The teacher should wait till the time that the
kid understands the entire thing and then only move onto to the next lesson. The children should be paired
with one another, as this increases the chances of learning something (Farquhar & White, 2014). They
should be taught in groups as this will keep them interested as they will be working with a partner. The
most important thing according to the South Australian government is that the child should be encouraged
at every stage and they should not demotivated to do anything they like, the educator should always
motivate the child into exploring new things and learning new lessons (Heikka, 2014). The south
Australian believes that the curriculum should be flexible and inclusive. By flexible it is meant, that the
educator should be flexible while designing the curriculum, a classroom will have different kinds of
children, a fixed curriculum might not be able to help everyone as the needs of the children vary. The
curriculum might be suited for some kids but others might struggle with understanding the curriculum
hence the teacher should design a curriculum that is flexible to the needs of the children. The curriculum