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A Word with You
A Word with You
A Word with You
A Word with You
A Word with You
Dear Learner,
Welcome to the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) course at the senior secondary level. Globally,
it is undisputed that the foundation to lifelong development, learning and imbibing of attitudes and values
is dependent on a responsive environment in the early years. The nation’s commitment to provide quality
care and education to young children requires that we create awareness about the significance and other
aspects of ECCE. NIOS plans to do this at the school stage.

The curriculum for ECCE for the senior secondary level course has been designed in pursuance of the
above. The self-learning material of the course has been divided for your convenience into two volumes.
The first volume has two modules and nine lessons. The second volume consists of three modules and 13
lessons. The total course comprises of five modules and 22 lessons. Each lesson includes activities to help
you master the concepts, gain practical experiences and help make learning meaningful. Intext questions
and terminal exercises have been incorporated to help you assess your own learning and get feedback as
you go along in the course.
Let us share some details of the course with you:

Module I: Early Childhood Care and Education aims to develop an understanding of Early Childhood
Care and Education (ECCE) and provisions for promoting quality ECCE in the country for all young
children.
Module II: Fundamentals of Child Development focuses on the process of growth and development of
young children as well as ways and means to promote holistic development of all children.

Module III: Curriculum, Practices and Progress discusses the need and importance of making ECCE
programme as child-centered, interactive, participative, joyful and meaningful.

Module IV: Organisation and Management of ECCE Centre is organised around the basic concepts of
setting up and management of an ECCE centre through optimal utilisation of infrastructural, human and
financial resources.
Module V: Diversity and Inclusion discusses the significance of diversity and ways of promoting inclusion
in the ECCE centre. It also discusses the importance of timely intervention to support children with special
needs.

The course also includes a practicum manual through which you will gain a better understanding of
young children.
While going through the course, you may have some doubts and queries. We hope you will share your
doubts and queries with your tutors during Personal Contact Programme (PCP) sessions.
To enrich your learning further, live MuktaVidyaVani programmes are delivered on a regular basis. These
can be accessed by logging on to nios.iradioindia.in
A sample question paper along with the question paper design and marking scheme is also provided at the
end of the second volume for the practice and preparation for examination.
It is hoped that you will find this self-learning material to be informative, interesting and useful.
We wish you all success and a bright future.

If you face any difficulty, please feel free to write us. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions
regarding this course.

Course Committee