COURSE OUTLINE

EDUC 1 The Child And Adolescent Learners And Learning Principles

Course Description: The course focuses on child and adolescent development with emphasis on current
research and theory on biological, linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional dimensions of development.
Further, this includes factors that affect the progress of development of the learners and shall include
appropriate pedagogical principles applicable for each developmental level.

I. Basic Concepts and Issues on Human Development (PRELIM)

A. Human Development Meaning, Concepts and Approaches

B. The Core Issues on Human Development

C. Research in Child and Adolescent Development

D. Developmental Theories

II. Four Broad Dimension of Child and Adolescent Development

a. First Dimension: Physical Development

A.1 Pre-natal Development
A.2 brain Development
A.3 Perceptual Development
A.4 Motor Development

III. Second Dimension of Cognitive Development (MIDTERM)

B.1 Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

B.2 Vygotsky’s Theory of Development
B.3 Information Processing Theory
B.4 Intelligence Theory

IV. Third Dimension: Language and Literacy Development

C.1 Behaviorist Theory

C.2 Nativist Theory

C.3 Interactionist Theory ( Cognitive)

C.4 Interactionist Theory ( Contextual)

C.5 Literacy Development

V. Fourth Dimension: Socio-emotional and Moral Development

D.1 Erickson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development

D.2 Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory

D.3 Lawrence Kohlberg’s Cognitive Theory of Moral Development

D.4 Carol Gilligan’s Theory of Moral Development

VI. Factors Affecting Development (SEMI-FINALS)

A. Maternal Nutrition, Child Nutrition, Early Sensory Stimulation

B. Age- related Changes: Universal Changes, Group Specific Changes, Individual Changes

C. Parenting, Role Modeling Peer Group Interactions

VII. Learning Principles and Theories (FINALS)

A. Nature of Learning

B. Theories of Learning

B.1. Behavioral Theories of Learning

B.2. B.F. Skinner Operant Conditioning Theory

B.3. Social Learning Theory

C. Factors that Contribute to Learning

D. Laws of Learning and Other Laws of Learning with Pedagogical Relevance

VIII. Children with Special Needs

A. Various Developmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents

B. Exceptional Development

Designed by:

ROSEMARIE T. GALBO, EdD

Instructor III