Preschool Education

Pre-requisites: Developmental Psychology course

Course objectives: For students to understand and develop the implications of educational and psychological theories in the field of preschool education; to familiarize with the basic concepts and categories of preschool education theory and practice; to develop positive professional attitude and team work competences.

Course description: The content is organized into 4 parts: 1. Family and public education of preschool children (education as a social activity, family and non-family education, institutional preschool education in our country, the relation between school and kindergarten); 2. Learning and education of preschool child (psychological theories of learning and education in early childhood, education in preschool institution – function, areas, organization); 3. Socialization in institutional preschool education (education as a mechanism of social inheritance, structure of the programme – organizational structure, nature of interaction, the role of teachers, task of socialization); 4. Observation and monitoring of children (observation functions, observation procedures and observation in the context, subjectivity in observation, monitoring of children and observation data compiling). Practical course: field research; planning and realization of activities with children; systematic observation of an individual child and a group of children; research realization and presentation.

Learning Outcomes: Students are familiar with the forms and characteristics of institutional preschool education; they have professional approach to the interpretation of preschool education theory and practice; they can monitor and examine the programme and child development, they are familiar with the strategies of partnership development.

Literature/Reading:

• Krnjaja,Ž.,Miškeljin,L.: Od učenja ka podućavanju, AM Graf, Beograd, 2006
• Leibzig,J.,Leach,J: Praćenje I posmatranje dece, CIP, Beograd, 2001
• Pavlović-Breneselović, D.: Položaj deteta u dečjem vrtiću i prvom razredu osnovne škole, Beograd, IPA
• Pavlović-Breneselović, D.;Pavlovski,T.:Partnerski odnos u vaspitanju, Beograd, IPA/CIP
• Pešić M., Pavlović D., Stokić L.: Modeli različitih oblika predškolskog vaspitanja, IPA, Beograd, 1989, str. 1-81
• Saifer,S.i dr.: Individualizovani pristup podučavanju,Beograd, CIP, 2000
• Pešić,M.: Motivacija predškolske dece za učenje, Beograd, Prosvetni pregled, 1985, str. 29-114
• Hrestomatija odabranih radova iz časopisa Predškolsko dete, fotokopirani materijali