XPPk07 Preschool didactics

Faculty of Education
autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zora Syslová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zora Syslová, Ph.D.
Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Sabina Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
XPPk07/01: Fri 16. 10. 14:00–15:50 učebna 32, Fri 30. 10. 14:00–15:50 učebna 41, Fri 6. 11. 14:00–15:50 učebna 39, Fri 13. 11. 15:00–16:50 učebna 39, Fri 15. 1. 8:00–9:50 učebna 39, 12:00–13:50 učebna 41, Z. Syslová
Prerequisites
XPPk03
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge about the course and the specifics of children's cognition of the world and learning, to acquire a theoretical overview of basic didactic categories and to acquire the basic skills of individual child knowledge management. The student will learn about the meaning of the game and its specifics in pre-school education, game theories, categorization of games and toy types. They learn about the influence of play on child development.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to: to define the specifics of teaching preschool child; understand the content of education; to define teaching method and to specify the criteria for didactically effective method, to acquire the classification of concrete methods; to classify educational instruments and principles; to describe the organizational forms of pre-school education and its importance in the pre-school age   (application of points of general didactics); to use games as an educational form in the kindergarten as fulfillment of educational content with   regard to the specifics of pre-school child development; to explain the theory of games (through different authors points of views); assess the progress of children;
Syllabus
  • 1. Educational aims (National educational framework). 2. Content of education. 3. Approaches to education (transmissive, constructivist). 4. Individualization in pre-school education. 5. How do children learn about the world (epistemological pre-school education, pre-concepts). 6. Game (its importance, classification). 7. Motivation. 8. The types of teaching (experiential, collaborative, social, situational) educational model E-U-R. 9. The didactic principles. 10. Teaching methods, activation of children. 11. Organizational forms of teaching, their specific features. 12. Evaluation of educational outcomes. to work with selected aspects of the same themes as those containing lectures in the seminars.
Literature
    required literature
  • SYSLOVÁ, Zora, Radmila BURKOVIČOVÁ, Jana KROPÁČKOVÁ, Kateřina ŠILHÁNOVÁ and Lucie ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ. Didaktika mateřské školy (Kindergarten Methodology). Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 252 pp. 373.2/.3 - Předškolní a primární výchova a vzdělávání [22]. ISBN 978-80-7598-276-6. info
  • ŠMELOVÁ, Eva and Michaela PRÁŠILOVÁ. Didaktika předškolního vzdělávání. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2018, 229 stran. ISBN 9788026213024. info
  • SUCHÁNKOVÁ, Eliška. Hra a její využití v předškolním vzdělávání. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2014, 182 s. ISBN 9788026206989. info
  • SMOLÍKOVÁ, Kateřina. Rámcový vzdělávací program pro předškolní vzdělávání. Praha: Výzkumný ústav pedagogický v Praze, 2004, 48 s. ISBN 8087000005. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars.
Assessment methods
seminar work, discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2020, recent)
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