Naslov
Teacher Competences in Early Childhood and Primary Education

Autori
Rengel, Katarina

Izvornik
Zasobi navčalʹnoj ta naukovo-doslìdnoï roboti (2312-1548) 42 (2014); 108-119

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, stručni

Ključne riječi
competence ; teachers ; contemporary understandings of childhood and children

Sažetak
This paper starts by identifying multiple understandings of the notion ‘competence’, discusses three approaches to competence (behavioural, holistic and constructivist) and provides a review of contemporary theoretical considerations about early childhood and primary teacher competence. The paper then focuses on contemporary understandings of childhood and children and discusses teacher competences in light of these understandings, based on results from a research conducted about children’s perspective of their reality in a preschool institution. Research results, indicating that children have very little opportunity for decision-making in preschool suggest that it is necessary to consider which teacher competences allow for both teachers and children to exercise their autonomy and actively participate in preschool and primary school. It is suggested that teachers’ development of reflexive and research competences could provide a way towards bridging the gap between teachers’ and children’s perspectives of preschool/primary school reality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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