As the child of two university graduates I've been expected to go to university myself. Only I completely messed up my life, several times. Not the mention the whole student loan situation putting me right off and just having Alexandros and in general life being chaotic and such.
Now I'm 24, things are evening out a bit. I have some savings. Sorry, had, I'm doing Open University and that costs around £3000 a module. I know which domain I want to work in. Childcare. Hah, how skilled and intellectual of me. I'm now at a point where I'm beyond caring, my line of work makes me happy. I've chosen to do the Early Childhood BA (Hons) degree. Fancy, right? I'm doing the modules E109 and E110. I'm now one month into my first two modules and I'm working on my Tutor Marked Assignments. They call these TMAs for short. A TMA is basically an essay, at least for what I've been asked to do it is.
As I said I'm doing two modules. E109, Exploring Perspectives on Young Children's Lives and Learning. This is mainly psychology based, it talks about the influences of culture, family and the like and how they can transform a child socially. Concepts of identity, belonging, attachment, development. It's all very interesting and I'm only on week three, I'm a week behind. E110 is about Young Children's Play and Creativity. It's about how children grow and develop mentally and physically helped by play. It covers influential practicioners who shaped modern perspectives.
I already knew about Montessori from my CAP Petite Enface in France, the centre where I studied was based on her ideas, I didn't know much about Froebel. He was just a passing name, here we learn in more detail who he was and his views. As well as Steiner, Isaacs, Malaguzzi and McMillan. It's interesting to compare the similarities and differences of so many teachers from so many different backgrounds.
Four weeks in and I'm already feeling smarter.
