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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT I: THE CHILDHOOD YEARS (THEORY)
Course Objectives:
This course will enable the students to
- Understand the concept of human development
- Analyze the development during prenatal period
- Evaluate the development during infancy.
- Understand the development in early childhood and late childhood.
- Apply the knowledge of childhood years in daily life
Course Outcomes (COs):
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CHSC 111 |
Human Development I: The Childhood Years (Theory)
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The students will be able to –
CO5: Discuss the meaning of Human development, stages, and child study methods. CO6: Determine the importance of reproductive health , stages, birth process and complications of pre natal stage. CO7: Discover the knowledge about infancy in dealing with infants. CO8: Develop the knowledge of milestones, various developments and play during early childhood years. CO9:Invent the strategies to use the knowledge of middle and late childhood years in dealing with their development |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Team teaching
Learning activities for the students: Self learning assignments, Effective questions, , Topic presentation, Giving tasks, |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Presentation |
- Definitions, history, scope and multidisciplinary nature of Human Development
- Human development as a scientific discipline and its place in home science
- Stages and aspects of development
- Meaning &Principles of Growth and Development
- Child study methods- Observations, interviews, questionnaires, checklist andcase study -types, merits and demerits, longitudinal, cross sectional approach and projective techniques
- Interrelationships of heredity and environment
- Reproductive health –Meaning and Importance
- Process of Conception
- Symptoms of pregnancy Stages of prenatal development factors affecting Pre-natal development
- Complications during pregnancy and childbirth
- Birth process
- Role of heredity, environment and maturation in development
- Post-natal care of mother and child- minor ailments.
- Neonate-adjustment, sensory, perceptual, feeding practices, importance of early stimulation.
- Reflexes and sensory capabilities of neonate and their importance.
- Immunization schedule- essential and non-essential vaccines.
- Milestones & characteristics of infancy
- Development in Infancy
- Physical-motor development
- Cognitive and language development
- Socio-emotional development
- Play during infancy
- Characteristics and developmental tasks
- Physical and motor development - body size, skeletal growth, physiological changes
- Cognitive & language development- Pre-operational thought, meta-cognition
- Socio-emotional development- self-esteem, Socialization with peers and siblin gender identity in Early Childhood
- Learning & play
- Characteristics and developmental tasks
- Physical development- changes in body size, proportion, composition
- Cognitive & language development- Information processing
- Social & emotional development- changes in self-concept, development of self esteem, sex typing.
- Changes in family relationships- parent child relationship, sibling
- Some common behavioural problems- thumb sucking, bedwetting stealing, lying and using abusive language
- Singh, A. (Ed). 2015. Foundations of Human Development: A life span approach. New Delhi: Orient Black Swan.
- Hurlock, E.B., Child Development McGraw Hill, New York 1988.
- Berk, L. E. (2007). Development through the lifespan. Delhi: Pearson Education.
- Rice. F. P. (1998). Human Development: A lifespan approach. New Jersey: Prentice a. Hall.
- Santrock, J. W. (2007). A topical approach to life-span development. New Delhi: Tata McGraw- Hill.
- Papalia, D.E., and Olds, S.W., (2005), Human Development, Tata Mc.Graw Hill Company,New York.
- Suriakanthi, A., (2005), Child Development, Kavitha Publications, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu.
