Week 4
Your values are shaped by...
Who are your family, age, education, experience, and culture?
Canada has two official languages.
What is English and French?
Someone who studies fundamental questions about existence,knowledge, and morality, often focusing on
abstract concepts and critical thinking
Who is a philosopher?
This term is generally recognised as a socially constructed phenomenon.
What is childhood?
Concerned with decentering power relationships masked with discursive neoliberal inclusivity politics such as colourblindness
What is Critical Race theory?
Your program statement allows your program to...
What are identify GOALS and APPROACHES that
will set as ‘practices’ in their programs?
At least 50% of all instruction is provided
in French.
What is French Immersion?
Thrilling, exciting free play that involves uncertainty of outcome and a potential for physical injury, but is not inherently dangerous. It's about children pushing their limits and developing essential risk management skills.
What is risky play?
The innocent child who comes into the world as a “tabula rasa," meaning...
What is a blank slate?
Challenges heteronormative identity as a norm of child development.
What is Queer Theory?
When Developing your Program Statement you should...
what is reflect on your program?
We must demonstrate that we value
and respect languages children in our care speak
What is nurturing home
languages?
Someone who creates a stimulating learning environment for children, builds strong relationships, and supports teachers. They also advocate for the early childhood field.
Who is an early childhood leader?
The image of a child who lives and works alongside adults who are essentially the same, but larger versions of the child is know as...
What is a miniature-adult ?
Challenging the idea that gender can only be thought of in distinctly male or female categorizations.
What is Feminine Theory?
How did the program statement come to be?
The Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA) came into effect on August 31,
2015. CCEYA is based on:
Current research
Observations of “Best Practices”
“How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years” document
Input from child care providers
Truth and Reconciliation was created in 2015 because...
What is urging federal, provincial, territorial
and aboriginal governments to work
together to change policies and
programs to repair harm caused by
residential schools and move forward
with reconciliation
The design of programs and courses of study AND the design of learning activities and activity sequences.
What is Curriculum and Pedagogy?
This child has the capacity to take on adult responsibility to the extent of saving others from terrible fates.
What is the Noble/saviour child?
Challenges the neutrality of knowledge and the narrative that children are dependent on adult control and scaffolding.
What is New materialism?
A program statement guides...
What are the the day-to-day beliefs, values and best
practices of our program?
The 94 Calls to Action are shown in two parts.
What are Legacy and Reconciliation?
Someone who develops a set of ideas or principles to explain a specific phenomenon, usually with a more applied focus on a particular field or area of study.
Wh0 is a Theorist?
This is a relatively new image of childhood; one that the Reggio Emilia movement has popularised and that many early childhood educators are adopting in their practice
What is the Agentic child?
Theory that decenters human (philosophers Haraway, Barod; Deleuze & Guattari).
What is Posthumanism?