What type of worlds are you envisioning education to create (for example, ECPC sees education as working towards creating more liveable worlds)? What is the obligation of the educator in creating the conditions to create?

Assignment Question

Pedagogical Manifesto A manifesto is a public declaration that often addresses aim, motives, or views of the writer. At the same time once manifestos are exposed, they are provocations for further dialogue. Considering the main ideas and discussions that sprang from the course, students will write a pedagogical manifesto.

List of expectations: • Concise statements on how we should take up the role early childhood education, the image of the teacher, the child, curriculum and pedagogical commitments. • Explain clearly the significance of each of the statement notes above and why the reader should take it seriously for inclusion as a manifesto • How the position taken in each of the statements reflects a particular theoretical position • How each of the statements, as informed by a particular theoretical position, obliges the educator to make pedagogical decisions.

Structure: • Each statement should be discussed in one paragraph (not more than two) (8 to 10 lines per paragraph). A paragraph is usually between 100 and 200 words long. Your final paper should be between 1000 and 1500 words. • At least three clear connections with citations to the course readings for each statement • APA guidelines are followed manifesto assignment A manifesto is a public declaration that often addresses aim, motives, or views of the writer. At the same time once manifestos are exposed, they are provocations for further dialogue.

Considering the main ideas and discussions that sprang from the course, students will write a pedagogical manifesto

1. Role early childhood education – what type of worlds are you envisioning education to create (for example, ECPC sees education as working towards creating more liveable worlds)

2. The image of the teacher – what is the obligation of the educator in creating the conditions to create

3. The image child – who is the child what is the educator’s obligation to this

4. Curriculum – what are are your trying to disrupt and what are your trying to nature in response to #1,2,3 and 5

5. Pedagogical commitments – what do you stand for as an educator