Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage

English, E.

Abstract

This paper briefly considers what research has told us about the development of young children's understanding. It goes on to look at the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (QCA, 2000) in terms of that research. The paper suggests that the guidance has addressed concerns that early years practitioners might be delivering an inappropriate curriculum in their attempts to reach targets. The published guidance is giving a clear message that an early years curriculum is quite different from that provided for older children and that our knowledge of child development should be the driving force in delivering that curriculum.

Citation

English, E. (2001). Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 197-204

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2001
• Deposit Date: Jun 30, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 30, 2008
• Journal: Evaluation and Research in Education
• Print ISSN: 0950-0790
• Electronic ISSN: 1747-7514
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 197-204
• Keywords: Child development.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1599930
• Publisher URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.net/erie/015/erie0150197.htm