Anyone know details on Tina Bruce’s child development theory? beliefs & how they affect the curriculum today?
i need to know as much about tina bruce and her theory relating to the modern curriculum.
please help if you can!!!
Lins
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March 12th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Tina Bruce is a leading figure in early childhood education and an expert on the principles of learning, she draws heavily on the work of the pioneers of child development work, Froebel, Steiner, Montesouri, Piaget, Bruner, Issacs through to more recent and current work by Vygotsky, Gardener, Nutbrown etc.
Ten principles of early childhood education – Bruce 1996.
The best way to prepare children for their adult life is to give them what they need as children.
Children are whole people who have feelings, ideas and relationships with others, and who need to be physically, mentally, morally and spiritually healthy.
Subjects such as mathematics and art cannot be separated; young children learn in an integrated way and not in neat tidy compartments.
Children learn best when they are given appropriate responsibility, allowed to make errors, decisions and choices, and respected as autonomous learners.
Self-discipline is emphasised. Indeed, this is the only kind of discipline worth having. Reward systems are very short-term and do not work in the long-term. Children need their efforts to be valued.
There are times when children are especially able to learn particular things.
What children can do [rather than what they cannot do] is the starting point of a child?s education.
Imagination, creativity and all kinds of symbolic behaviour[reading, writing, drawing, dancing, music, mathematical numbers, algebra, role play and talking] develop and emerge when conditions are favourable.
Relationships with other people[both adults and children] are of central importance in a child’s life.
Quality education is about three things: the child, the context in which learning takes place, and the knowledge and understanding which the child develops and learns.
References :
http://www.teacherworld.org.uk/werneth.html
March 13th, 2010 at 12:14 am
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