EDUC 433 - Family Partnerships and Community Connections

5 Credits

Successful early childhood education depends on partnerships with children’s families and communities. In this class, explore the importance of and complex characteristics of children’s families and communities. Learn to create respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families, and to involve all families in their children’s development and learning.

Pre-requisite(s) EDUC& 115, EDUC& 130, ECED& 160, EDUC& 204,  and EDUC 240 with min. 2.0
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Winter Evening
Designed to Serve BAS in Early Childhood Education
Active Date 20220330T15:33:50

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Course Outline

Identity analysis - what are the sociological factors influencing children and families? What are our own identities?
Communication and relationship strategies.
Seeing families as a resource for children’s development. What are all of our roles?
Cross cultural communication and problem solving.
Engaging the community. What resources are available? When to refer families?

Student Learning Outcomes
Apply theoretical perspectives on identity development to ECE practice, including but not limited to research on race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, class, language, religion, and ability.

Describe a collaborative approach to child/family development, incorporating anti-racist, respectful, and reciprocal engagement and relationship strategies.

Investigate community resources critiquing their ability to provide developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropropriate services

Construct strategies to negotiate potential conflicts between families' preferences and cultures and the setting's practices and policies related to health, safety and developmentally appropriate practices.

Construct strategies to successfully engage families as partners for insight into their children for curriculum, program development, and assessment, and as partners in planning for children's transitions to new programs.