Childhood Growth and Development (5 ECTS)

Code: SX00BO80-3022

General information

Enrollment: 30.11.2020 - 13.12.2020; Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 06.01.2021 - 14.03.2021; Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 ECTS

Mode of delivery: On-campus

Unit: (2019-2024) School of Wellbeing

Campus: Myllypurontie 1

Teaching languages: English

Seats: 0 - 30

Degree programmes: Social Services (in English)

Teachers: LeighAnne Rauhala; Satu Hakanen

Groups: SXG20S1
Degree Programme in Social Services päivä

Course: SX00BO80

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Objective

Students will become familiar with the various stages of human development and the factors affecting them: early childhood, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Students will learn the basic knowledge of childhood development.

Content

The key development theories related to early childhood development. Physical, psychological, cognitive and social development and growth in childhood.

Location and time

Tentative Schedule (subject to change. final schedule in course syllabus)
18.01.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPC4013 orientation
21.01.2021 12.30 - 16.00 MPC4013
22.01.2021 08.30 - 11.45 MPA4018
29.01.2021 08.30 - 11.45 MPA6009
02.02.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPA6009
03.02.2021 08.30 - 11.45 MPA4018
09.02.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPC4013
16.02.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPC4013
23.02.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPA6009
03.03.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4009 Final exam

Materials

Human Growth and Development, 3rd ed. Beckett & Taylor, 2016: Chapters 2, 3, 4 & 5 and page 192
- Child Development, 11 or 12th edition, Santrock. Sections 2 and 4.
- ECE lectures

Teaching methods

Contact lectures, reading reflections, final written exam
For early childhood education track also child observation assignment.

Employer connections

Collaboration with SETA on Gender Development (TBA)
Child observation assignment

Exam schedules

03.03.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4009 Final exam
Re-exam dates: TBA

International connections

International literature

Completion alternatives

Student workload

27h per credit

Content scheduling

see above

Further information

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Teaching is either distance or contact teaching,
according to current recommendations.
It will be announced before the start of the course.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment:
Assessment criteria see the attachment.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment methods and criteria

Final exam 50%
Reading Reflections/+ECEC track observation task 30%
Participation 20%