Project Approach to Learning in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

This paper deals with Project approach to learning in early childhood education. It draws on the fluid and continuous relationship in learning and teaching with renewed insights. It highlights the context for an emergent curriculum through child-initiated activities that are extended by teachers appropriately and innovatively. The intent of the paper is to portray children’s learning through an approach that involves them. This is a qualitative research paper. It provides for the context where in project approach was used in an ECE center in India; a narrative of the field notes of an exemplar project topic; interspersed with discussion on the insights drawn from developmentally appropriate activities; and concludes with its bearing on advances in teaching.