Correct Answer - Option 2 : giving primacy to children's voices and their active participation
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-centered pedagogy refers to a pedagogy that emphasizes to shift teaching to learning as it emphasizes upon:
- enabling children to express their ideas freely.
- allowing students to work at their own pace freely and willingly.
- giving primacy to children’s voices and their active participation.
- providing opportunities to students to foster their own strategy of learning.
- catering totality of students' experience that occurs in the educational process.
- using different kinds of innovative learning strategies to address children's' diverse learning needs.
- planing the process of learning after understanding the psychology and interests of children.
Hence, it could be concluded that child-centered pedagogy means giving primacy to children’s voices and their active participation.
