Details for Child Development

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Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
Unit code: MIN222
Credit points: 10
Total workload hours per week: 10
Number of timetabled hours per week: 3 *

* Note: Units with reduced contact hours (such as those taught in Intensive format) will have an increased assessment component.↩

The unit Child Development is part of the subject area Ministry and is offered as a part of the following Awards: Bachelor of Contemporary Ministry (Alphacrucis College (NSW Dept. of Education)).

Unit Content

Curriculum Objective

This unit examines child development and the issues faced by children from birth to adolescence. The major theories of child development are considered and their implications for children’s ministry.

Subject Content

Physical, social and cognitive changes during childhood
Age-related characteristics of children from birth to adolescence.
Cognitive, psychosocial, moral and spiritual development during childhood, including individual differences in development.
Social problems of children includingabuse and risk.

This course may be offered in the following formats

Lectures, discussion, student presentations, field observations.

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis College.

Assessment Methods

Major Essay (50%, 2500 words); Critical Book Review (25%, 1250 words); Exam (25%)

Prescribed Text

Readings provided

Representative References

Berk, L. Infants, Children and Adolescents.5^th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004
Boyatzis, C. & Junn, E.Annual Editions.Child Growth and Development, 06/07, New York:McGraw Hill Contemporary Learning Series. 2006.
Cole, M. & Cole, S.The Development of Children, 5^th ed, New York:Worth Pub., 2005
DeHart, G. B., Sroufe, L. A. & Cooper, R. G.. Child Development: Its Course and Nature. 4^th ed., New York: McGraw Hill Publishers, 2004
Kail, Robert Children and their Development.Upper Saddle River, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1998.
Ginsburg, H., & Opper, S. Piaget's theory of intellectual development, 3^rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Gopnik, A, Meltzoff, A. & Kuhl P.The Scientist in the Crib -- What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. NY:HarperCollins Pub., 2001.
McDevitt, T. & Ormrod, J.Child Development and Education. 3^rd Ed.Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice Hall, 2006
Santrock, J.Child Development, 10^th Ed., New York:McGraw Hill, 2004