How Environments Inspire Curriculum in Early Childhood Education
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This essay explores how physical and social environments shape children's behavior and learning in early childhood education. The author argues that environments communicate implicit messages to children and uses personal experiences alongside academic sources to demonstrate how environmental factors influence developmental outcomes and life choices.
What this essay covers
- Introduction and thesis on environmental influence on child behavior
- Comparative analysis of urban versus rural childhood experiences
- Personal case study examining peer influence in campus environments
- Discussion of long-term consequences of environmental choices
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How Environments Inspire Curriculum in Early Childhood Education
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“The early childhood environment gives children important messages. In other words, the environment ‘speaks’ to children.” I fully agree with this statement. Children grow to behave in a way that the environment they grow up shapes them. In her article Julianne Wurm (2020) says if we want to give our children a good education and general life, then we must always focus on the environment they learn from and those they grow up in. Children who grow up in urban communities tend to have different experiences from those who grow up in rural areas because the situation in urban areas exposes children to cosmopolitan life. For example, children who grow up and attended school in urban areas are used to parties and would not miss a birthday party as compared to children brought up in rural areas, which are sometimes not keen on holding parties during their important days as birthdays. Sometimes they learn it from teachers or in pop programs in the televisions. It is, therefore, true that the environment ‘speaks’ to children.
While I was in university, I made choices that the campus environment influenced me. I engaged in the use of hard drugs. The campus has a robust peer influence from friends. Most of my friends used drugs, forcing me to use them too for me to be even with them. This choice has affected me the whole of my life.