GENERAL PEDAGOGY AND CHILDHOOD EDUCATION WITH LABORATORY 3Module Laboratory of CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: GABRIELLA D'APRILEExpected Learning Outcomes
Through laboratory activities, students will be required to:
Develop autonomy in applying educational methodologies and strategies by designing and planning activities related to the contexts and institutions in which they will operate;
Demonstrate the ability to transfer their knowledge and competences to different types of services and contexts;
Engage in group discussions to compare the limits and potential of their own elaborations;
Exercise forms of professional reflexivity that can be applied to their own and others’ work in early childhood educational contexts, in order to cultivate a culturally advanced, critical, flexible, and dynamic vision of the professional profile and, consequently, of the role of practitioners in early childhood educational services.
Course Structure
Conceive and design the organization of space and time of early childhood education from the perspective of active teaching.
Required Prerequisites
In order to access essential knowledge for understanding the dimensions and variables implicit in educational processes, and to have adequate theoretical and methodological references, it is essential to study the content of the General and Childhood Pedagogy course.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is mandatory. Access to the exam session will not be allowed unless the laboratory has been completed with a satisfactory evaluation.
Detailed Course Content
The laboratory activities will begin with a brief overview of the materials, sources, and documentation resources relevant to the main topics of the course. They will be carried out both individually and in groups, and will conclude with a plenary session where the outcomes will be presented and discussed collectively.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Students will present and submit the work completed during the practical activities along with a final product.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
To design, plan, and implement educational activities in early childhood education settings.