Introductory Child Development

Introductory Child Development

The general course of development is similar for males and females although it is a proven fact that females mature somewhat earlier and more rapidly than the males. Man has the longest period of relative immaturity of all creatures. Humans are so complex that it takes more than twenty years to grow up both physically and mentally.

Just five short years, from five to ten, occupy a middle position in this long span of immaturity and these middle years are intermediate both in a biological and in a cultural sense. It is during this period that the child sheds their milk teeth and cuts the first permanent tooth – biological events, and enters into the educational system – a sociological event.

Puberty is the next great land mark on the pathway to development. It marks the beginning of adolescence, which continues for some ten years, until attainment of maturity. They are years in completion; the first five years of the life are years of preparation. The middle years of childhood lie between. They can be understood only in terms of the past in which they are rooted, and in terms of the future towards which they trend.

Course Content

• The general cycle of development
• The growing child – physical
• The growing mind – mental development
• The growth complex
• Parent, child, teacher relationships
• Approbation and disapprobation and Ethical sense

 Course Outcomes

• Understand puberty and the role it plays in the Development Cycle.
• Explain the educational procedure and identify what is often forgotten in this procedure.
• Have a good knowledge of which neurons are involved with: organs of sense, muscular system, speech and memory.
• Have knowledge the principles which “schools skills” are subject to.
• Epxlain what occurs over time as a child matures.
• Explain what the word considerateness expresses.
• Understand the physiological functions that an infant must learn to co-ordinate.
• Be able to explain and define the corpus of behaviour.
• Have knowledge of the primary susceptibilities of the organism to illness and what they are determined by.
• Identify four areas in a child’s make up in which tensional activity might be perceived.
• Remember and explain the phases to the dynamic which governs the growth of ethical sense.
• Explain what approbation and disapprobation are.

Course Investment £95

20-30 hours of study time.