Correct Answer - Option 1 : Giving Primacy to Children's Experiences and their voice
Pedagogy refers to the set of principles that influence the approaches to the teaching-learning process. It consists of a learning environment, teaching-learning arrangements, methods, general educational principles, etc.
Child-centred pedagogy:
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Child-Centred Pedagogy focuses on student needs, abilities, interests and learning styles with the teacher as facilitator. It allows children to create and imagine which is an important aspect of child-centred education.
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Child-centred education begins with teachers involving students in a classroom to share in decision making processes and believing in their capacity to lead. The child progresses at its own speed in a subject.
- Child-centred instruction means using the child as the starting point for the lesson plan and developing the curriculum.
- It gives primacy to children's experience and their voices.
- It gives an opportunity to students to foster their own strategy of learning.
- It plays a vital role in learning and shaping the personality of a child.
Hence, it can be concluded that child-centred pedagogy means giving primacy to children's experience and their voice.