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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Ecology of Children and Families 2

  • Unit Code

    CHN1102

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit adopts an ecological perspective to examining the development of children between four and twelve years of age. This includes an examination of relationships between child development, family, community and culture. This unit aims to provide students with the sound knowledge base from which they will be able to plan, deliver and evaluate high quality programs for children aged between four and twelve years of age. This unit is linked with CHN4112. Students who have completed CHN1102 are not eligible to enrol in CHN4112.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN1123, CHN4112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the effect of nutrition and health on children's development between four and twelve years.
  2. Describe the impact of families, community and culture on child development between four and twelve years.
  3. Describe the range of theories of child development between four and twelve years.
  4. Generate and communicate ideas in relation to cultural competence in children and family settings.
  5. Identify cross-cultural differences in child development between four and twelve years and the systems that impact on this development.
  6. Outline the developmental sequence in the age range between four and twelve years in the context of social systems in which that development occurs.

Unit Content

  1. Impact of community variables on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  2. Impact of cultural competence in education and community settings on children and families' developmental opportunities.
  3. Impact of cultural variables (such as bilingualism, development of prejudice, beliefs about the role of parenting and perceptions of health) on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  4. Impact of family variables on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  5. Impact of variations in nutrition and health on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  6. Relationships between systems (such as home, school/peer group and culture) and the impact these relationships have on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  7. Sequences of development between four and twelve years across all domains: physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language and moral.
  8. Theories of child development.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures will provide opportunities for discussion of the unit content. Occasional guest speakers from children and family services field. An academic skills adviser will provide students with information about available learning support in the first lecture. Tutorials will provide opportunities for small group discussions and practical exercises. Students will be encouraged to use creative and innovative ways to communicate ideas during tutorial presentations and to engage a range of audiovisual resources (e.g. short videos; Power Point; audio recordings). Students will be encouraged to communicate with each other and to share ideas via disussion board.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayTheory50%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayTheory50%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Ecology of Children and Families 2

  • Unit Code

    CHN1102

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit adopts an ecological perspective to examining the development of children between four and twelve years of age. This includes an examination of relationships between child development, family, community and culture. This unit aims to provide students with the sound knowledge base from which they will be able to plan, deliver and evaluate high quality programs for children aged between four and twelve years of age. This unit is linked with CHN4112. Students who have completed CHN1102 are not eligible to enrol in CHN4112.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN1123, CHN4112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the effect of nutrition and health on children's development between four and twelve years.
  2. Describe the impact of families, community and culture on child development between four and twelve years.
  3. Describe the range of theories of child development between four and twelve years.
  4. Generate and communicate ideas in relation to cultural competence in children and family settings.
  5. Identify cross-cultural differences in child development between four and twelve years and the systems that impact on this development.
  6. Outline the developmental sequence in the age range between four and twelve years in the context of social systems in which that development occurs.

Unit Content

  1. Impact of community variables on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  2. Impact of cultural competence in education and community settings on children and families' developmental opportunities.
  3. Impact of cultural variables (such as bilingualism, development of prejudice, beliefs about the role of parenting and perceptions of health) on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  4. Impact of family variables on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  5. Impact of variations in nutrition and health on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  6. Relationships between systems (such as home, school/peer group and culture) and the impact these relationships have on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  7. Sequences of development between four and twelve years across all domains: physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language and moral.
  8. Theories of child development.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures will provide opportunities for discussion of the unit content. Occasional guest speakers from children and family services field. An academic skills adviser will provide students with information about available learning support in the first lecture. Tutorials will provide opportunities for small group discussions and practical exercises. Students will be encouraged to use creative and innovative ways to communicate ideas during tutorial presentations and to engage a range of audiovisual resources (e.g. short videos; Power Point; audio recordings). Students will be encouraged to communicate with each other and to share ideas via disussion board.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayTheory50%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayTheory50%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Berk, L. (2012). Infants, children and adolescents. (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/683593604?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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