NAME OF STUDENT : MUDAU TSHIWANDALANI
STUDEN T NUMBER : 66833299
EXAM
COURSE : HED2601
DUE DATE : 22 Sep. 2021
, QUESTION 1:
1.1 Early childhood development (ECD)’ refers to the physical, psychological, cognitive and social
development that a child experiences between birth and school-going age. he definition of ECD
includes children up to age 8 on the premise that a successful transition to primary school depends
not only on the child’s school readiness, but also on the readiness of schools to adapt to the specific
needs of young learners in the early grades.
1.2 Parental ethno-theories, therefore, are the ideas that parents or other adults have about what
they consider to be important in the development of young children. These ideas are
embedded in community practices and rituals and are regenerated over time as each
generation adapts the rituals to their own contexts.
Parental ethnotheories, which reflect the cultural belief systems that parents hold with regard to
the nature of children, development, parenting and the family are conceptualized as the
mediating structure between the cultural models of individualism and collectivism – a cluster
of ideas that characterize broader socio-cultural systems that functionally organize the
human experience, relationships and development – and behavior . These cultural models
have been understood as two contrasting forces that form two developmental trajectories,
one focusing on the cultural construction of the self as an independent and valuing
autonomy as well as on individual achievement, the primacy of individual
1.3 Evaluate the influence on South African society in order to understand the history of ECE.
Is what being taught relevant to children in Africa, examine what is associated with Western
influences. Africanization relates to early childhood education because it involves infusing
indigenous knowledge and African culture into teaching and learning process. Early
childhood education is linked to Africanization since it entails incorporating indigenous
knowledge and African culture into the teaching and learning process.
1.4 -teaching of the African culture in the foundation phase lesson
Teaching of the African languages infusing oral literature at the early stage of learning. it entails
incorporating indigenous knowledge and African culture into the teaching and learning process
1.5
1.5.1 The western perspective is dominant in South Africa’s ECD because South African formal
education borrows a lot from the European formal education. In the ECD of South Africa, the
Western perspective prevails, because South African formal education takes much into account
in European formal education.
1.5.2 Because the are being studied and tested by many philosophers. Serpell means that the
theories are empirical and could be proven using scientific methods.
STUDEN T NUMBER : 66833299
EXAM
COURSE : HED2601
DUE DATE : 22 Sep. 2021
, QUESTION 1:
1.1 Early childhood development (ECD)’ refers to the physical, psychological, cognitive and social
development that a child experiences between birth and school-going age. he definition of ECD
includes children up to age 8 on the premise that a successful transition to primary school depends
not only on the child’s school readiness, but also on the readiness of schools to adapt to the specific
needs of young learners in the early grades.
1.2 Parental ethno-theories, therefore, are the ideas that parents or other adults have about what
they consider to be important in the development of young children. These ideas are
embedded in community practices and rituals and are regenerated over time as each
generation adapts the rituals to their own contexts.
Parental ethnotheories, which reflect the cultural belief systems that parents hold with regard to
the nature of children, development, parenting and the family are conceptualized as the
mediating structure between the cultural models of individualism and collectivism – a cluster
of ideas that characterize broader socio-cultural systems that functionally organize the
human experience, relationships and development – and behavior . These cultural models
have been understood as two contrasting forces that form two developmental trajectories,
one focusing on the cultural construction of the self as an independent and valuing
autonomy as well as on individual achievement, the primacy of individual
1.3 Evaluate the influence on South African society in order to understand the history of ECE.
Is what being taught relevant to children in Africa, examine what is associated with Western
influences. Africanization relates to early childhood education because it involves infusing
indigenous knowledge and African culture into teaching and learning process. Early
childhood education is linked to Africanization since it entails incorporating indigenous
knowledge and African culture into the teaching and learning process.
1.4 -teaching of the African culture in the foundation phase lesson
Teaching of the African languages infusing oral literature at the early stage of learning. it entails
incorporating indigenous knowledge and African culture into the teaching and learning process
1.5
1.5.1 The western perspective is dominant in South Africa’s ECD because South African formal
education borrows a lot from the European formal education. In the ECD of South Africa, the
Western perspective prevails, because South African formal education takes much into account
in European formal education.
1.5.2 Because the are being studied and tested by many philosophers. Serpell means that the
theories are empirical and could be proven using scientific methods.
