COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ECE 1102 EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

PRE - SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DENIZ EKINCI VURAL

Offered to

PRE - SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION

Course Objective

The purpose of this course, the concept of student teachers in early childhood development and developmental processes to gain basic information about pre-natal development physical development, motor-movement development, cognitive development, language development, personality development, moral development, emotional development and sexual development the basic concepts and processes related to the acquisition of information to provide.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the basic concepts of development and development
2   To be able to comprehend the relation of development areas.
3   To be able to comprehend the relationship between early development and pre-school education.
4   To be able to explain the development in the prenatal period
5   Explain motor development in early childhood
6   Explain physical development in early childhood
7   Be able to explain cognitive development in early childhood
8   Explain language development in early childhood
9   Explain personality development in early childhood
10   Explain emotional development in early childhood
11   Explain moral development in early childhood
12   Explain sexual development in early childhood

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of development and basic concepts, development and term concept
2 Characteristics and principles of development
3 Development in the prenatal period
4 Physical development (development in body organ systems, factors affecting physical development)
5 Motor development (basic concepts of motor development, motor development periods)
6 Cognitive development (Basic concepts of cognitive development, Piaget, Vygotsky and Gardner)
7 Language development (Basic concepts in language development, Language development periods and bilingualism)
8 general evaluation, repetition, midterm
9 Personality development (basic concepts, development periods of Freud)
10 Personality development (basic concepts, Erikson development periods)
11 Moral development (Basic concepts, Piaget's Moral Development Periods)
12 Moral development (Kölberg's Moral Development Periods)
13 Emotional development (basic concepts and process of emotional development)
14 Sexual development (basic concepts and process of sexual development)
15 Semester final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Yeşilyaprak B. Gelişim ve Öğrenme Psikolojisi, Ankara: Pegem Yayıncılık.
Atay, M. (2005). Çocukluk Döneminde Gelişim II Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık.
Gander, M. J. ve Gardiner, H. W. (2007). Çocuk ve Ergen Gelişimi. Imge Kitabevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, lecture, question-answer, cooperative learning techniques.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

deniz.ekinci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Bedside theoretical 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 2 7 14
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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