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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

    Child Rearing

  • Unit Code

    CHN3203

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

In this unit students will examine the relationship between changing social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing. Attention will be placed on examining the goals, assumptions and strategies underpinning a variety of approaches to child rearing and the application of these approaches to both the home and external environment. Students will also examine issues related to the teaching of child rearing to parents.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from CHN1101, CHN1102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN2201, CHN4211

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Deconstruct the underlying assumptions, goals and strategies applied in humanist, behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches to child rearing and parenting programs.
  2. Describe the relationship between changing social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing in the Australian and international context.
  3. Explain the influence of context, culture and gender in the Australian and international context in the determination of what is deemed socially acceptable behaviour for children from birth to twelve years of age.
  4. Discuss the role of cultural competence in understanding, interpreting and managing children's behaviour.
  5. Observe, interpret, plan strategies and evaluate children's behaviour using a range of assessment techniques.

Unit Content

  1. Humanist, behaviourist and cognitive behavioural principles and related strategies and their application to child rearing, group care settings and parenting programs.
  2. Examination of the links between autocratic and democratic social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing and management in the Australian and international context.
  3. The impact of context, setting, cultural mores, gender, mass media, peer pressure and bullying on the perception of socially acceptable behaviour for children between four and twelve years of age.
  4. The impact of cultural competence on managing children's behaviour in children and family services.
  5. Objective observation, interpretation, planning and evaluation of children's behaviour; adopting strength based approach to recommendations and planning; strategies to facilitate prosocial behaviour.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 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 ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
ProjectChild observation project50%
Case StudyCase studies working with children, families and communities50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectChild Observation project50%
Case StudyCase studies in working with children, families and communities50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Bentzen, W. R. (2009). Seeing young children: A guide to observing and recording behaviour. (6th ed.). NY: Delmar. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/175056802?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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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

    Child Rearing

  • Unit Code

    CHN3203

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

In this unit students will examine the relationship between changing social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing. Attention will be placed on examining the goals, assumptions and strategies underpinning a variety of approaches to child rearing and the application of these approaches to both the home and external environment. Students will also examine issues related to the teaching of child rearing to parents.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from CHN1101, CHN1102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN2201, CHN4211

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Deconstruct the underlying assumptions, goals and strategies applied in humanist, behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches to child rearing and parenting programs.
  2. Describe the relationship between changing social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing in the Australian and international context.
  3. Explain the influence of context, culture and gender in the Australian and international context in the determination of what is deemed socially acceptable behaviour for children from birth to twelve years of age.
  4. Discuss the role of cultural competence in understanding, interpreting and managing children's behaviour.
  5. Observe, interpret, plan strategies and evaluate children's behaviour using a range of assessment techniques.

Unit Content

  1. Humanist, behaviourist and cognitive behavioural principles and related strategies and their application to child rearing, group care settings and parenting programs.
  2. Examination of the links between autocratic and democratic social, cultural and family structures and approaches to child rearing and management in the Australian and international context.
  3. The impact of context, setting, cultural mores, gender, mass media, peer pressure and bullying on the perception of socially acceptable behaviour for children between four and twelve years of age.
  4. The impact of cultural competence on managing children's behaviour in children and family services.
  5. Objective observation, interpretation, planning and evaluation of children's behaviour; adopting strength based approach to recommendations and planning; strategies to facilitate prosocial behaviour.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 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 ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
ProjectChild observation project50%
Case StudyCase studies working with children, families and communities50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectChild Observation project50%
Case StudyCase studies in working with children, families and communities50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Bentzen, W. R. (2009). Seeing young children: A guide to observing and recording behaviour. (6th ed.). NY: Delmar. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/175056802?databaseList=638
  • Porter, L. (2016). Young children’s behaviour : guidance approaches for early childhood educators (4th ed.). Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/927166413?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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