ED 312 - Play and Creativity in Early Childhood Education

(3.00 cr.)

Provides students the opportunity to analyze and evaluate strategies to promote evidence-based best practices, using current theories and methods regarding appropriate approaches to learning connected to creativity and play-based learning strategies. Students investigate how play-based learning can promote healthy development and well-being for children in the early years, learning how to create routines, activities, and collaborative strategies to involve all community members to facilitate optimal development. Developmental strategies focus on fine and gross motor skills, neurological development, including executive function, and the relationship of nutrition and physical activity to cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being in young children. Students investigate the connection between imagination and creativity to support brain development and self-regulation in a child's cognitive and emotional growth, which is crucial to the young child's development across all learning domains, developing engaging learning experiences through play and creative activities.

Prerequisite: ED 112 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies