Course aims:

to use correctly and in various contexts the specific terminology in the psycho-pedagogy of early education and small schooling, from the perspective of educational alternatives;
to identify specific teaching methodologies for the educational alternatives used in Romania and in the European countries;
to propose new opportunities for addressing educational alternatives in the teaching process, in general, and in early education and in small schooling, in particular;
to select and apply the methods of teaching strategies specific to each educational alternative for early education and small schooling;
to build educational projects, based on coherent didactic strategies, which stimulate the integral development of children's personality;

Course Entry Requirements:

• Basic knowledge in the field of didactics of preschool education and of the small schooling acquired during the degree studies, through professional experience and / or in non-formal or informal learning contexts.

Course contents:

1. Educational alternatives: premises, evolutions and theoretical arguments 2. The educational alternative Step by step - theoretical and applicative perspectives 3. Montessori educational alternative - theoretical and applicative perspectives 4. Educational alternative Curative pedagogy and Waldorf - theoretical and applied perspectives 5. Educational alternative Jena Plan - theoretical and applied perspectives 6. The theme of institutional evaluation of educational alternatives

Teaching methods:

Lecture, Conversation, Video media

Learning outcomes:

grade

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Volume and accuracy of knowledge The scientific rigor of language Content organization

Recommended reading:

Janet, Gonzalez-Mena, Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education (6th Edition), Publisher Merrill,, -, 2012,
Petrash, J., Understanding Waldorf Education: teaching from the inside out., Floris Books, Edinburgh, 2008,
Brewer. J. A, Introduction to early childhood education,, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 2001,