Early Childhood and Social Studies

Early Childhood and Social Studies

• Early childhood educators can capitalize on a child’s natural interests in the world around them and carefully plan various experiences by considering social studies.
• Educators can use social studies to extend and cultivate young children’s diverse abilities and skills to voice and form opinions, negotiate roles, identify and solve problems, recognize the consequences of their behaviors and decisions on others, and perceive inequality and diversity (Villotti, 2019).
• Social studies are essential in early childhood education because children’s attitudes as citizens in the learning environment, the community, and school are shaped by their formative experiences.
• The relationships that children develop in their communities, homes, and schools create the foundation of early childhood education.
• Learning social studies provides many valuable components in supporting early learners while they participate in creating a caring, democratic, and inclusive environment and identifying real-world problems.
• Social studies engage students in exploring and asking questions about the abstract critical values and norms affecting daily human interactions, relationships, and social systems.
• Educators can embed and integrate social concepts in children’s learning through classroom centers, read-aloud, and/or explicit conversations on topics and instruction (Villotti, 2019).
• Social studies in early childhood are best presented as part of inquiry-based learning experiences that center children’s learning on children’s interests.
• Educators can increase or reduce social inequalities in the classroom based on their approach toward children’s gendered, religious, ethnic, and socio-cultural diversity.
• Culturally responsive teaching includes teaching children about social studies processes and systems and allowing them to experience them.
• Classroom topics should include teaching learners various cultural traditions and families to promote children’s emotional and social learning at home and in other environments.

References

Villotti, K. (2019). Early Childhood in the Social Studies Context. Social Studies. https://www.socialstudies.org/position-statements/early-childhood-social-studies-context

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Required textbook: Seefeldt, C., Castle, S. and Falconer, R. (2014). Social studies for the pre-school and/or primary child. (9th Ed.) New York: Merrill (YOU’RE READING CHAPTER 2 Planning section of pt. 2 pgs.26-57 IN TEXTBOOK.) THEN YOU’RE GOING TO ANSWER THE 1ST FOUR BULLETED QUESTIONS ON PAGE 26 AFTER READING.

Early Childhood and Social Studies

2. SEPERATLY YOU’RE GOING TO READ THE ARTICLE BELOW AND Create a set of notes of the Position Statement: (Early Childhood and Social Studies)