Understanding Community Roles and Relationships
Knowledge of different roles people have in communities and how communities function
What the research says
Referenced across 1 developmental framework: finnish_ecec
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Before this (4)
Required (1)
- Community BelongingMin: developingUnderstanding own community precedes understanding broader community structures
Helpful
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Character (3)
How it's taught
Children learn about community through direct experience and observation; community helpers visit ECEC; children explore different roles through dramatic play; family structures are discussed and honored; cross-sectoral cooperation exposes children to different professionals
Materials: Dramatic play materials for different roles, photos of community helpers, family trees and relationship maps, books about communities and families
What mastery looks like
No awareness of community roles or relationships
- Does not recognize different roles in ECEC (teacher, cook, etc.)
- Shows no understanding of family roles
- Cannot identify community helpers
- Does not understand relationships between people
Beginning to recognize familiar roles in immediate community
- Identifies roles of people in ECEC setting
- Names family members and their relationships
- Recognizes some community helpers (police, doctor)
- Understands that people have jobs
- Knows own role as child in family and ECEC
Understands various community roles and basic relationships
- Describes what different community helpers do
- Explains family relationships (siblings, grandparents, etc.)
- Understands different roles in ECEC community
- Recognizes that people can have multiple roles
- Describes how people help each other in community
- Understands basic organizational structures (family, classroom)
Comprehensive understanding of community structures and interdependence
- Explains how different roles contribute to community functioning
- Understands interdependence in communities
- Describes complex relationships (extended family, professional relationships)
- Recognizes how communities are organized
- Understands that communities have rules and norms
- Compares different types of communities
- Explains how roles change in different contexts
Analyzes community structures and considers how they could be improved
- Discusses how community structures affect people differently
- Analyzes power and decision-making in communities
- Considers how communities could be more inclusive
- Reflects on own multiple roles and identities
- Compares community structures across cultures
- Discusses concepts of leadership and governance
- Proposes improvements to community organization
Formal assessments
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Standardised assessment view
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