ECEE 5000 - Child Development

Credit Hours: 3

This online course provides teachers with the opportunity to review recent research and theory concerning advanced child growth and development. The course examines the nature and process of child development with a focus on infancy and early childhood years. The primary goal of the course is the integration of information generated from empirical research, both classic and current, into explanatory systems (theories) of child development. The emphasis in this course is less on learning the facts of child development and more on learning why child development research is conducted (theories), how it is conducted (methodology), what it means for the field (conclusions) and how research is evaluated (critical thinking).