Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, 2/e

Judith Meece, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Student Study Guide by Nancy Defrates-Densch

Studying Children's Development

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Explain the importance of studying child development for teachers.

Describe four different views of children's development and explain how differing views may influence teacher practice.

Discuss the influences schools have on children's cognitive, social, and emotional development.

Describe how our ideas about childhood and children are shaped by social, economic, and historical circumstances.

Discuss current demographic trends occurring with children in our society and how these trends will affect schools in the future.

Explain the importance to teachers of being knowledgeable about various theories of child development.

Describe the issues of debate in child development.

Describe the major theoretical perspectives on child development and the assumptions underlying each.

Identify the advantages and disadvantages of different research designs and data collection methods.

Identify what to look for when judging the quality of a study.

Describe the ethical guidelines that must be followed in research studies involving children and adults.

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