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
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 30
- Degree programmes
- Social Services (in English)
- Teachers
- LeighAnne Rauhala
- Satu Hakanen
- Course
- SX00BO80
Learning outcomes
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.
Teaching methods
Contact lectures, reading reflections, final written exam
For early childhood education track also child observation assignment.
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
Learning materials and recommended literature
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
Alternative completion methods of implementation
na
Internship and working life connections
Collaboration with SETA on Gender Development (TBA)
Child observation assignment
Exam dates and retake possibilities
03.03.2021 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4009 Final exam
Re-exam dates: TBA
International connections
International literature
Student workload
27h per credit
Content scheduling
see above
Further information for students
na
Teaching is either distance or contact teaching,
according to current recommendations.
It will be announced before the start of the course.
Assessment methods and criteria
Final exam 50%
Reading Reflections/+ECEC track observation task 30%
Participation 20%
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.