School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Ecology of Children and Families 2
  • Unit Code

    CHN1102
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa 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.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN1123, CHN4112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the developmental theories and sequences of development in children between four and twelve years.
  2. Discuss the impact of families, community and culture on child development between four and twelve years.
  3. Discuss cross-cultural differences in child development between four and twelve years and the systems which impact on children's development.
  4. Explain how services for families and children have evolved and continue to evolve in different times and societies.
  5. Describe the development of cultural competence of children between four and twelve years in a range of settings.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of child development.
  2. Sequences of development between four and twelve years across all domains: physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language and moral.
  3. Impact of variations in nutrition and health on childrens development between four and twelve years.
  4. Impact of cultural competence in education and community settings on children and families' developmental opportunities.
  5. 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.
  6. Impact of family and community variables on children's development between four and twelve years.
  7. 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.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the field

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalyse and apply theory to a current issue 50%
TestApplication of theory to practice50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalyse and apply theory to a current issue50%
TestApplication of theory to practice50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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