EDE2201 Development and Learning: Birth - 8 (FOEDU)

Units 1.0 (Teacher Education: Early Child) Band 5

Students must have successfully completed the entire previous year's professional experience courses in order to enrol in this course. Students must be available for a prescribed period of time to undertake a placement in a school or other approved site as required in this course. State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland are required to possess a current suitability card (Blue Card). (See "Other Requirements" for further information.) Also see: http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/employment/bluecard/informationSheets.html

Synopsis

This course examines the major theories, features and processes of language, social, emotional, cognitive and motor development during early childhood from the prenatal period to eight years of age. Knowledge of contexts, their impact on individual development, and an awareness of the interrelationships between each area of development is necessary in order to develop an understanding of how children think and learn. This course also explores a range of observational and documentation techniques that are used by educators to understand and analyse young children?s development as the basis for planning and organising appropriate educational opportunities in early childhood. Access to a child aged from birth to eight is required to complete the assessment for this course.