EDME402-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)

Imagining Possibilities for the Early Years

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

What existing or unrealised modalities of educational thought and practice will sustain us, and what fresh ideas arise when possibilities are brought to bear on unknowable futures? This question has inspired many Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers to conceive new possibilities that can be utilised in and beyond the early years. This course invites imaginative encounters with some of these thinkers, their modalities of thought and what these might offer the Early Years. Students will apply selected modes of thinking and theoretical concepts to their own educational environments, with a view to stimulating alternatives to current realities.

Learning Outcomes

On the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Develop specialist knowledge about key thinkers and their modes of thinking and theoretical concepts
2. Critically analyse the relevance of a range of modes of thinking and theoretical concepts for the early years and beyond
3. Apply selected modes of thinking and theoretical concepts to debates in the field of real life contexts
4. Generate alternatives to current realities

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Course Coordinator

Jayne White

Lecturers

Andrea Delaune , Carrey Siu and Ngaroma Williams

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Critical Analysis 28 Mar 2025 30%
Co-designed manifesto 01 May 2025 30%
Digital visual matrix 19 May 2025 40%

Additional Course Outline Information

Important Course Information

Important Course Information
Students are required to actively engage with all course content and activities including Zoom workshops, lecture recordings, readings, online modules, and any other requirements specified by the course coordinator, in order to meet the learning outcomes of the course.

Students are expected to notify lecturers in writing (e.g. email message) prior to their absence, with an explanation. For extended absences (3 or more days), students should apply to the course coordinator. Extended absences must be accompanied by supporting evidence, e.g. medical certificate. Alternative tasks that demonstrate engagement with course content missed due to absences must be completed if provided.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,169.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Teacher Education .

All EDME402 Occurrences

  • EDME402-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
  • EDME402-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)