Welcome to the Early Childhood Curriculum website.
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Student resources
The student resources below are available to users of the book and require a username and password.
- The username is: childhood
- The password can be found in Chapter 9 of the book, and is the first word under the heading 'A cultural-historical reading of concept formation' (page 159 of the print book).
These documents provide the content indicated by the web icons in the print book, and provide links to useful web resources accompanied by reflective questions or activities.
Files can be downloaded by chapter using the links below, or in one zip file.
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Theory, research and the early childhood curriculum
- Chapter 3 Play, learning and development: How views of development shape how curriculum is framed
- Chapter 4 Curriculum as a cultural broker
- Chapter 5 Interpreting early childhood curriculum
- Chapter 6 Cultural-historical curriculum in action
- Chapter 7 Curriculum as a conceptual tool: Observation, content and programming
- Chapter 8 Assessing children and evaluating curriculum: Shifting lenses
- Chapter 9 Content knowledge: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
- Chapter 10 Content knowledge: Languages and literacies
- Chapter 11 Content knowledge: The arts and health, wellbeing and physical activity
- Chapter 12 Conclusions