Course Syllabus - Educ 22

XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Cagayan de Oro City
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number : Educ 22( Reg/ MWF)
Course Title : Child and Adolescent Development
Credit : 3 units

I. Course Description:
This is a basic course on child and adolescent development focusing on current research and theory on the biological, linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional dimensions of development and the factors that affect the progress of development.
The coverage of these ideas is intended to provide the future teacher with a broad yet fairly detailed understanding of the developmental processes that students undergo and do that such understanding may be used to guide all dealings with the students.
II. General Objectives:
1. Compare and contrast, organize and synthesize the different researches and theories related to the four broad dimensions of child and adolescent development.
2. Observe and reflect on the applicability of the theories to children and adolescents in their local context
3. Articulate their own views and ideas on how children and adolescents grow.
4. Appreciate, value and respect the difficult and complex processes that students of different ages go through
5. Express some insights regarding how teaching and learning processes are affected by the nature of learners.

III. Outline of Contents and Time frame
Content/Topics
Orientation and Tasking
I. Introduction:
A. Importance of Human Growth and Development
B. Principles of Growth and Development
C. Factors that influence growth and development

SYNTHESIS

II. The child and adolescent learner
A. Development of the learner
A.1 Stages of the Life Span

SYNTHESIS

III. Physical and motor development of children and adolescents
A. Physical and motor development
B. Brain development
C. Factors affecting physical and motor development
D. Exceptional development: physical and sensory disabilities; attention deficits; hyperactivity disorders

SYNTHESIS

IV. Language development of children and adolescents
A. Natural history of language development
B. Bilingual language development
C. Emergent and early literacy; reading development and performance
D. Factors affecting language development
E. Exceptional development: aphasia and dyslexia

SYNTHESIS

PRELIMS

V. Cognitive development of children and adolescents
A. Theories of cognitive development:
Piaget
Vygotsky
Information-processing theories

INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS

THEORIES OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

STERNBERG’S TRIARCHIC THEORY

B. Individual difference:

C. Factors affecting cognitive development

LEARNING AND THINKING STYLES

SYNTHESIS

D. Exceptional development:
Giftedness

MIDTERMS

Mental retardation
PDD
Autism

Asperger’s Syndrome
Down syndrome

SYNTHESIS

SEMI-FINALS

VI. Social and emotional development of children and adolescents
A. Psychoanalytical Theory of Freud

B. Theories of socio-emotional development: Erickson
Bandura

SYNTHESIS

C. Theories of the development of moral reasoning attitudes and beliefs :
Kohlberg
Gilligan

SYNTHESIS

D. Factors affecting development: parenting, media influences, role models, peer groups and interactions

SYNTHESIS

Integration









IV. Course Requirements

Attendance and Attitude
Class Participation (Meaningful)
Report with group dynamics
Assign, Journals
Quizzes
Midterm Exam
Finals
Projects




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Papalia, D.E. (1999). A child’s world: Infancy through adolescence. Boston: MGraw-Hill
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Santrock, John W. (2005). Adolescence. Boston:McGraw-Hill

Santrock, John W. (2005). Educational Psychology. Boston:McGraw-Hill


Sroufe, Alan. L. (2000). Child development: its nature and course. Boston:McGraw-Hill

Tileston, Donna Walker. (2004). What every teacher should know about learning, memory and the brain. Thousand Oaks Calif.: Corwin Press.


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Schunck, D.H. (2004). Learning theories: an educational perspective. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Merill/Prentice Hall.

Sroufe,L.A. (2000). Child development: its nature and course. New York:McGraw-Hill.

Trawick – Smith, Jeffrey W. (1997). Early childhood development: a multi-cultural perspective. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merill.