BSc Education

Year of entry: 2023

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Course unit details:
Development and childhood

Course unit fact file
Unit code	EDUC13022
Credit rating	20
Unit level	Level 1
Teaching period(s)	Semester 2
Offered by	School of Environment, Education and Development
Available as a free choice unit?	Yes

Overview

This unit is designed to guide students to critically examine key theory and research in developmental psychology and to critically evaluate applications and extension of developmental psychological theory in relation to education and child development.

Session content is structured around key pre-session reading, structured debate and discussion during the taught session, and a plenary activity to be covered post-session. Topics include:

- Attachment theory

- Cognitive development (Piaget and Vygotsky)

- Language development

- Moral development

- Peer relationships .

- Gender development

Aims

To provide coverage of the BPS qualifying syllabus core area for developmental psychology
to develop understanding of theory and research in psychological aspects of human development and applications thereof

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

Demonstrate an understanding of a number of key theories in developmental psychology, their underpinning research and their limitations.

Intellectual skills

Discuss and debate chosen topics in developmental psychology and critically evaluate their strengths and limitations of their underpinning research.

Critically evaluate applications and extensions of developmental psychological theory in relation to education

Practical skills

Transferable skills and personal qualities

Take charge of their own learning and undertake self-directed study to produce a credit-bearing assignment

Written communication

Oral communication (contributing to discussion and debate)

Working with others (group work)

IT skills (word processing, accessing electronic databases and library facilities, managing references)

Teaching and learning methods

Content sessions (e.g. including discussion and debate, case/scenario based learning, and other approaches to learning and teaching)

Blended learning approaches by offering pre and post session stimulus material online for asynchronous group online discussion and private learning.

Assessment methods

Assessment task	Length	How and when feedback is provided	Weighting within unit
Using one of the theories discussed in either the cognitive development or the social/emotional development blocks consider the extent to which it is relevant to education	2,500	Written feedback (utilising Turn-it-in), within University guidelines.	100%

Students are also required to complete an online ‘mid term quiz’, as indicated on Blackboard. This assessment covers a breadth of knowledge from across the unit.

This assessment is open book may be completed at any time, and multiple re-sits are allowed. However, a pass mark of at least 80% is required in order to be able to submit your credit-bearing assignment.

Feedback methods

Written feedback (utilising Turn-it-in), within University guidelines.

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures	30

Independent study hours
Independent study	170

Teaching staff

Staff member	Role
Pamela Qualter	Unit coordinator

Additional notes

Activity	Hours Allocated
Staff/ Student contact	*20 interactive lectures @ 1.5 hours** 30
Online discussion board (pre and post guided activities)	40
Private study, reading and assignment preparation	130
Total Hours	200

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