ECE 2340 - Foundations of Early Childhood Education

3(3 + 0)

Prerequisite/Corequisite: ECE 2350

This course introduces the historical and philosophical foundations of early childhood education as well as current social, educational, multicultural, and law-related issues and trends. Emphasis will be on the knowledge, attitudes, and decision-making skills essential for continued academic work in a standards-based curriculum and corequisite field experience course, ECE 2350, in urban, multicultural, early childhood settings serving children from birth through age eight.