Child Development Psychology

Objectives

1.To acquire information on child development in its cognitive, motor, affective, social and moral dimensions;
2. To identify factors that influence Development and understand how they act together;
3.To build a conceptual grid capable of guiding future professional practice;
4.To relate knowledge about child development to child behavior;
5.To detect regularities and specificities in the perspectives of children, both from the analysis of children's dialogues, and from questioning children in interviews-conversations;
6.To derive implications from course content regarding pedagogical decisions and interventions;
7.To develop attitudes of observation, research and reflection.

Program

I. Developmental Psychology

1. Conceptual framework, history and research methods

2. Concepts, theories and factors of human development

     2.1. Concept of development

     2.2. Theories of development

     2.3. Factors responsible for development and their interaction

     2.4. Concept of development, phase and stage.

 

II. Child Development

3. Physical and psychomotor development

4. Cognitive development

     4.1. Periods and acquisitions of cognitive development of the child

     4.2. Child drawing and play

5. Affective and psycho-social development

     5.1. Attachment

     5.2. The construction of affection through social interaction

6. Moral development

7. The child and its developmental contexts (family and school)

Teaching Methodologies

Theoretical, expository and theoretical-practical classes.

Videos watching and discussion.

Small-group work.

Analysis and discussion of articles/texts.

Practical exercises.

Bibliography

Bee, H. (2009). Lifespan development. Pearson International Edition.

Berk, L. (2006). Child development (7th ed.). Pearson.

Brown. K. W., Cozby, P. C., Kee, D. W., & Worden, P. E. (1999). Research methods in human development (2nd ed.). Mayfield Publishing Company

Lee, K. (2000). Childhood cognitive development. Blackwell Publishers.

Lourenço, O. M. (1998). Psicologia de desenvolvimento moral. Teoria, dados e implicações (2ª ed.). Almedina.

Lourenço, O. M. (2002). Psicologia de desenvolvimento cognitivo. Teoria, dados e implicações (2ª ed.). Almedina.

Miller, P. H. (1993). Theories of developmental psychology (3rd ed.). W. H. Freman.

Papalia, D. E., & Feldman, R. D. (2012). Human development (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Schaffer, D. R. (2005). Psicologia do desenvolvimento da infância e adolescência. THOMSON.

Smith, P. K., Cowie, H., & Blades, M. (2015). Understanding children's development (6th ed.). John Wiley & Sons.