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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Margaret Coady.
Prerequisite: At least 120 points of Child Development Studies or approved equivalent.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture/tutorial each week for seven weeks and a 2-hour student-led seminar each week for the remaining six weeks.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate detailed knowledge of selected key theories of child development and the ability to evaluate them critically;
- analyse and synthesise relevant commentaries on these theories contained in the current literature of child development;
- appreciate the ways in which theories of child development impact on practice in early childhood settings; and
- contribute to informed discussion on theories of child development in formal seminars and peer-based activities.
Content:
An in-depth and critical appraisal of selected key theories of child development. The child development literature will be used to evaluate these theories and explore the ways in which they impact on students' understanding of the complex processes of child development and practice in early childhood settings. The specific theories included will be chosen to build upon and broaden the prior knowledge and interests of students. Topics to be considered may include cognitive development including neo-Piagetian and neo-Vygotskian approaches and skills theory; ethological, social learning and systems approaches to the study of child development; the impact of implicit or naive psychology; the study of the child's development of a Theory of Mind; and current issues of research methods in developmental psychology as, for example, Gilligan's suggestion of gender specificity in Kohlberg's study of moral development and responses to her claims.
Assessment:
A 4000 word assignment (80 per cent) and a seminar presentation and a 1000 word abstract (20 per cent).
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