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One in five people will experience themselves, or have someone close to them experience, a disability or developmental challenge of some form during their lifespan. Students will deepen their understanding and foundational knowledge through examining contemporary and critical issues relating to infants, children and adolescents who follow a different developmental pathway, such as, those with antisocial behaviour, childhood depression and cerebral palsy. Events in the development of children with challenges will be considered as to their impact on outcomes.
1. Students will understand relationships between individual characteristics and health, the family and the community may influence the children with developmental challenges. 2. Students will compare and contrast a range of perspectives on a particular development challenge.3. Students will source and use publicly available sources of information and differentiate between their reliability or not Goals of the Course1. To deepen students’ understanding of developmental outcomes as a transactional process between the individual, their family and the community through the study of “One in Five”. 2. To foster students capacity to understand different views about “One in Five” and their development. 3. Students will learn to use publicly available sources of information about “One in Five”, and to differentiate between reliable and unreliable sources, and to use multiple sources of information.
18 points in EDUC or PSYC106 or permission of Head of School
Myron Friesen
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There are three major pieces of assessment: a short essay titled “Growing up with…” (20%), a test (40%), and a two-part controversy project (40%).
Required readings: There is no textbook for this course. All required readings will be posted on the Learn website in Adobe “pdf” format for download and/or printing. It is expected that students will read the weekly assigned readings prior to lecture.
Domestic fee $821.00
International fee $3,464.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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