Issues important to early childhood education and care

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Early Childhood Matters

Position paper

Learning Outcome 1: Identify a range of issues important to early childhood education and care.

Learning Outcome 2: Analyse a range of positions highlighted in authoritative literature on contemporary issues related to early childhood education and care.

Learning Outcome 3: Critically reflect on their personal approach/philosophy of learning, development and teaching within early childhood education and care in relation to contemporary issues.

Learning Outcome 4: Argue a position on current issues in early childhood education and care, in relation to the literature

Rationale
As an early childhood teacher your beliefs form the basis of your early childhood philosophy. How you implement this philosophy within your teaching practice will be influenced by a range of issues within your local and broader community.

Task Description

This task requires you to analyse and evaluate the various positions of the contemporary issues presented in Module 4 - 6. Include a personal reflection that explains your own position on a selected issue and critically analyse and justify your personal position in relation to current, scholarly literature.

Task Instructions

Drawing on the unit learning materials, unit tutorials and a range of relevant and current scholarly literature, select one issue addressed in Module 4 to 6 of this unit and:

Part 1: Analyse and evaluate the positions put forward on this issue within the unit materials and discussions. (500 words)

Part 2: Reflect on and synthesise your personal position on the issue explaining why and how it is relevant to you personally as a teacher/educator working with children, families, and other relevant stakeholders in the Australian early years sector (500 words).

Part 3: Justify your personal position on the issue using a range of relevant and current scholarly literature. (500 words).

Part 1:
You MUST refer to the unit learning materials and discussions in the recorded tutorial session/s that address the issue you select.
Look at the meaning of ‘analyse' and ‘evaluate' in the following document

Part 2:
Read this document about Reflective Writing -

Formatting and style
APA 7 formatting is required for this task.
Include a cover page that contains:
The title of the task in bold
Your name (as author),
Your faculty (Faculty of Education)
The unit code and name (TCHR3001 Early Childhood Matters)
Your unit assessor's name (Kelly Simpson)
The due date
Include a title or the prompt at the start of each response.
Students may use headings that align with the task instructions to organise their responses.
Indent the first line of each new paragraph.
Use 12-point Arial font.
Double line space your writing and your reference list.

Referencing
APA Referencing style is required to be used for this task.

- In Part 2 of this task, you will synthesise (clearly outlining, summarising and presenting) your own personal position on your chosen issue
- Your position is your own, however it needs to be developed and be able to be justified through relevant scholarly literature (you will do this in Part 3)
- To develop your position, you need to reflect on how it will impact you and the children, families and communities you will work with as an ECEC teacher in Australia Your position MUST be relevant to you as a teacher in ECEC in Australia
- To synthesise your position, you need to outline and present these impacts in a clear way
- This will require you to think about both how the issue will:
- impact on you (as an ECEC teacher)
- Impact on them (as ECEC stakeholders you will work with)
- how these impacts will influence and frame your approach to teaching (your teaching practices/what you will do as an ECEC teacher in relation to this issue) and learning as a professional teaching in an Australian ECEC service

THE PROCESS OF JUSTIFYING YOUR PERSONAL POSITION IN THIS TASK IS THE SAME AS THE JUSTIFICATION PROCESS IN

TASK 1
- You will need to use relevant, current scholarly literature to justify why your personal position is appropriate, why the approaches you have outlined are relevant, etc.
- This will require you to engage with a broad range of literature on the issue, including the unit readings, the EYLF, the NQS, and other literature sources
- You MUST demonstrate through the literature the validity of what you have stated in your personal position on the issue
- PEEL paragraphs will support you here.

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