1st class of Child Development

During this class, we will be:

Introducing each other
Introducing the course and sharing
expectations
Beginning our journey of exploring who
we are in the lives of children, ourselves,
and, others.

agenda

Complete the form of Getting to know you

Introduce yourself
Syllabus
Concerns and challenges?
Human development: Introduction

 Your name and the name you prefer to be

called
What are you gifted with?
How do you want people perceive you?
Your recent experience as a teacher, what did
you enjoy and what did you straggle with?
What are the best recent learning experiences
you had, why did you enjoy it?

Introduction of Child Development

Whats your expectation?

What has been discovered?
What is still uncertain?
What is universal?
What is cultural-specific?
How to study a human development?
How to do a human development?

Child development across time

(1) what in the past
(2) what are
happening now?
(3) what will happen
next?

Educating the
child in the world

Traditional child development theories and later

evolvement
Pioneers of
child studies
Pestallozi
(1746-1827)
Charles
Darwin
(1809-1882)

Maturationist
Behaviorist
G. Stanley Hall (1900s)
John B. Watson(1929)
Normative charts (p. 23)
B. F. Skinner (1948)

Correlational
studies

Classical
and
operant conditioning

Experimental
studies

Learning behaviors
=> constructivism

Psychoanalytic
Sigmund Freud, 1938
Erik Erikson , 1963
The formation of
personality

Conflict resolving
=>
Ecological system

Various methods and studies about

child development
Published in journals:
Child development, Early Education and
Development, Early Childhood Research Quarterly,
Pediatrics, Infant And Child Development, Child
Development Perspectives

Quick view from A science-based website:

Parenting-Checkpoint.com
Example: can personality in childhood predict
adults health?

Ecological system for teaching

SCHULTZ, K., et. Al. (2005) & Tzuo, P. (2010)

Backgrounds
and life
experiences
of teachers
Teacher
education
programmes

School
context
Social context

Practices

Changing across time

and places
Who makes changes?
Theories lead development
or development leads theories

Video
Ecological system and child development
How natures, family, school influence in a
childs development?
A separate relationship?
Or an interlocked relationship?
Why and how?

References

Berk, L. E. (2010). Exploring lifespan development. (2nd edition). Pearson Education.

Broderuck, P. C. & Blewitt, P. The life span: Human development for helping
professionals. (3rd edition). Pearson Education.
Davies, D. (1999). Child development: A practitioners guide. New York: The Guilford
Press.
Durkin, K. (1995). Developmental social psychology: From Infancy to old age.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Trawick-Smith, J. Early Childhood Development: A multicultural perspectives. (5th
edition). Pearson Education.
SCHULTZ, K., JONES-WALKER, C. E., & CHIKKATUR, A. P. (2008). Listening to
Students, Negotiating Beliefs: Preparing Teachers for Urban Classrooms. Curriculum
Inquiry, 38(2), 155-187.