School: Education

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

    Children's Growth, Development and Learning
  • Unit Code

    EDL1260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Joan Geraldine STRIKWERDA-BROWN

Description

This unit presents a critical study of current theories in child development, including aspects of childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development. Students will use a socio-cultural perspective to critically analyse constructions of childhood and thinking about children's growth, development and learning.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS1112, ECS1265, EDL1002

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the connection between an understanding of childrens growth, learning and development and the implications for teaching.
  2. Apply reflective processes to make connections between personal experience, research and theory.
  3. Communicate understandings of how childhood is constructed and how childrens growth, learning and development is influenced and changes over time.
  4. Critically analyse theories and processes of childrens growth, development and learning.
  5. Describe how childrens development and learning is diverse.
  6. Examine childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development and their interrelatedness.

Unit Content

  1. Childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development.
  2. Constructions of childhood through a socio-cultural lens.
  3. Diverse factors that influence childrens growth, development and learning.
  4. Principles of written and oral presentation of perspectives in child development.
  5. Theories of growth, development and learning.

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 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 1 hour pass session10 x 1 hour pass session10 x 1 hour pass session
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial
Semester 210 x 1 hour waitlist10 x 1 hour waitlistNot 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 Workshop activities and discussion Independent study Research and written assignment Group based learning Reflection and critical analysis

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%

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: Education

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

    Children's Growth, Development and Learning
  • Unit Code

    EDL1260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Joan Geraldine STRIKWERDA-BROWN

Description

This unit presents a critical study of current theories in child development, including aspects of childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development. Students will use a socio-cultural perspective to critically analyse constructions of childhood and thinking about children's growth, development and learning.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS1112, ECS1265, EDL1002

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the connection between an understanding of childrens growth, learning and development and the implications for teaching.
  2. Apply reflective processes to make connections between personal experience, research and theory.
  3. Communicate understandings of how childhood is constructed and how childrens growth, learning and development is influenced and changes over time.
  4. Critically analyse theories and processes of childrens growth, development and learning.
  5. Describe how childrens development and learning is diverse.
  6. Examine childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development and their interrelatedness.

Unit Content

  1. Childrens cognitive, physical, social-emotional and moral development.
  2. Constructions of childhood through a socio-cultural lens.
  3. Diverse factors that influence childrens growth, development and learning.
  4. Principles of written and oral presentation of perspectives in child development.
  5. Theories of growth, development and learning.

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 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 1 hour pass session10 x 1 hour pass session10 x 1 hour pass session
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial
Semester 210 x 1 hour waitlist10 x 1 hour waitlistNot 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 Workshop activities and discussion Independent study Research and written assignment Group based learning Reflection and critical analysis

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Hoy, A. W., & Margetts, K. (2015). Educational psychology (4th edition.). Sydney, N.S.W: Pearson Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/901981274
  • O’Donnell, A., Dobozy, E., Bartlett, B., Nagel, M., Spooner-Lane, R., Youssef-Shalala, A. . S., & J. (2019). Educational psychology. (Third Australian edition., pp. xi, 696). Milton Qld: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1059418283

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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