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Description
How do young children learn? This course, Parents and toddlers: Teaching and learning at home, look at the way toddlers interact with their carers in the home environment. You will learn how adults use different methods of teaching to encourage a small child to expand their boundaries and develop new ways of thinking.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:- Discuss how children's early experiences with their parents/caregivers, siblings and peers contribute to the learning of new skills and problem-solving techniques
- Understand how parents/caregivers use to talk and play in informal teaching and learning exchanges with toddlers and young children to communicate social and cultural practices
- Understand key psychological and educational theories and concepts relating to children's social development and mental growth
- Appreciate the features of effective teaching used by parents and other adults in informal learning settings such as the home
- Appreciate why researchers rely on detailed observation of video-data to develop an understanding of the psychological processes that take place during teaching and learning interactions between young children and their parents/caregivers
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