Emergent Curriculum

Young Children 2013

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The Emergence of our Emergent Curriculum

Curriculum vs. setting the stage’day to day plans in response to observations and reflections on needs and==and interests

 

Sources of emergent curriculum

·         Children’s interests

·         Teachers interests

·         Developmental tasks

·         Things in the physical environment

·         People in the social environment

·         Curriculum resource materials

·         Serendipity: unexpected events

·         Living together: conflict resolution, caregiving and routines

·         Values held in the school, family and culture and quickly but learning is dependent on the range of words exposed to