310934 (v.1) Understanding Children's Development (0-8 Years) 101

Area:	Department of Education
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Workshop:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit will investigate the development of the cognitive (incorporating language development), social, psychological, emotional, physical and motor, moral and gender domains in the early childhood context. Examination of the effect of the environment on early development will also constitute a specific focus. Development will be presented as a continuum along which a range of changes are expected in correspondence with the age group. Asynchronous development will also be addressed and the relationship between development and learning stages will be highlighted. Additional Tuition Pattern: Three hour workshop per week
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Field of Education:	070100 Teacher Education (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External