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Child Growth and Development

This collection contains the Affordable Learning Solution for the Southern University System (AL$4SUS) list of peer-reviewed textbooks for Child Growth and Development (common course-id CDEV 100), a top 50 college course identified for inclusion in the Southern University Online Library for Education (SUOLforEd).

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General Course Description: CDEV 100

This introductory course examines the major physical, psychosocial, and cognitive/language developmental milestones for children, both typical and atypical, from conception through adolescence. There will be an emphasis on interactions between maturational processes and environmental factors. While studying developmental theory and investigative research methodologies, students will observe children, evaluate individual differences and analyze characteristics of development at various stages.

Minimum Units: 3.0

Any rationale or comment:

Materials adopted by the Early Childhood Curriculum Alignment Project (CAP) in 2007 for use by all California Community Colleges. Endorsed by the California Community College Early Childhood Educators (CCCECE).

Date Added to MERLOT:

November 5, 2017

Created by:

Michelle Lobbestael

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Prerequisites

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

Advisories/Recommendations: None

Pedagogical Approach & Learning Outcomes

Pedagogical Approach

None

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Describe major developmental milestones for children from conception through adolescence in the areas of physical, psychosocial, cognitive, and language development.
Analyze how cultural, economic, political, historical contexts affect children’s development.
Identify cultural, economic, political historical contexts that affect children’s development.
Identify and compare major theoretical frameworks related to the study of human development.
Apply developmental theory to child observations, surveys, and/or interviews using investigative research methodologies.
Differentiate characteristics of typical and atypical development.

Assessment & Other Information

Assessment

Exams (objective and essay) that demonstrate the students' ability to define principle theories of development, research methods, historical perspectives on child development, ethical issues, and recent trends in the field.
Research papers, essays and/or group projects that demonstrate student's ability to trace human development from conception through adolescence, analyze specific theories in child development, compare and contrast physical, cognitive and psychosocial development norms and deviations from typical development and analyze historical perspectives
related to child development.
Instructor assessment of participation in classroom discussions, presentation of group projects, observational study, and direct classroom experience with children.

Other Information

None

Course Resources

Educational Psychology (Open (Access) Textbook)

Chapters in the Seifert and Sutton text can be assigned either from beginning to end, as with a conventional printed... More

Chapters in the Seifert and Sutton text can be assigned either from beginning to end, as with a conventional printed book, or they can be selected in some other sequence to meet the needs of particular students or classes. In general, the first half of the book focuses on broader questions and principles taken from psychology per se, and the second half focuses on somewhat more practical issues of teaching. But the division between “theory” and “practice” is only approximate; all parts of the book draw on research, theory, and practical wisdom wherever appropriate. Chapter 2 is about learning theory, and Chapter 3 is about development; but as we point out, these topics overlap with each other as well as with the concerns of daily teaching. Chapter 4 is about several forms of student diversity (what might be called individual differences in another context), and Chapter 5 is about one form of diversity that has become prominent in schools recently—students with disabilities. Chapter 6 is about motivation, a topic that is heavily studied by psychological researchers, but that also poses perennial challenges to classroom teachers. Following these somewhat more basic psychological chapters, we turn to several lasting challenges of classroom life—challenges that seem to be an intrinsic part of the job. Chapter 7 offers ideas about classroom management; Chapter 8, ideas about communicating with students; Chapter 9, about ways to assist student complex forms of thinking; and Chapter 10, about planning instruction systematically. The book closes with two chapters about assessment of learning: Chapter 11 focuses on teacher efforts to assess students, and Chapter 12 focuses on standardized measures of assessment.
Cognitive Development in Childhood (Online Course Module)

Although described as an online course module, this can also be considered as part of a textbook. This module examines... More
Social and Personality Development in Childhood (Online Course Module)

Although this is described as an online course module, it can also be used as part of a textbook. Childhood social and... More

Although this is described as an online course module, it can also be used as part of a textbook. Childhood social and personality development emerges through the interaction of social influences, biological maturation, and the child’s representations of the social world and the self. This interaction is illustrated in a discussion of the influence of significant relationships, the development of social understanding, the growth of personality, and the development of social and emotional competence in childhood.
Attachment Through the Life Course (Online Course Module)

Although categorized as an online course module, this can also be considered as part of a textbook. The purpose of this... More

Although categorized as an online course module, this can also be considered as part of a textbook. The purpose of this module is to provide a brief review of attachment theory—a theory designed to explain the significance of the close, emotional bonds that children develop with their caregivers and the implications of those bonds for understanding personality development. The module discusses the origins of the theory, research on individual differences in attachment security in infancy and childhood, and the role of attachment in adult relationships.